Books Quote by Rose Tremain

Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.

— Ted Bell

It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.

— Nick Hornby

Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.

— Jerry Spinelli

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

— Doris Lessing

Usually, I start thinking about my next novel soon after completing the latest, and it can take anywhere from a month to 6 months…

— Nicholas Sparks

It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages…

— Alan Furst

I take a very long time to write my books - from five to ten years.

— Svetlana Alexievich

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

— Edward Abbey

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time…

— Antony Beevor

It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.

— Jonathan Ames

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.

— Cynthia Kadohata

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

— Walter Jon Williams