Always thinking Quote by Sarah Weeks

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger…

— Jack Prelutsky

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

— Jerry Spinelli

I love writing picture books because they are very child-centered and family-focused. The idea of creating a story within 2-5 typewritten pages is very…

— Jerdine Nolen

Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14 years to…

— Avi

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

— Walter Jon Williams

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

The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short,…

— Margaret Mahy

It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a book wants…

— Elizabeth Berg

Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be poetic. They…

— Kirby Larson

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

— Doris Lessing

I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot…

— Barbara Hamby