Book Quote by Stephen J. Cannell

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

— Jerry Spinelli

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

— Ted Bell

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

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

— Doris Lessing

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

— Edward Abbey

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

— Agatha Christie

I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.

— Paul Auster

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

— Rose Tremain

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 tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer.

— Elizabeth Berg

I write at a pace that suits me, and sometimes it's two books a year, but most often it's one.

— Michael Connelly

I write four or five a books a year. That means that I usually have one on the go. I am fortunate in being…

— Alexander McCall Smith