Books Quote by Svetlana Alexievich

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

— Ted Bell

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

— Jerry Spinelli

It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last…

— Naomi Klein

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

— Edward Abbey

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

— Doris Lessing

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

— Elizabeth Berg

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

— Rose Tremain

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

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

— Nick Hornby

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

I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every…

— Jon Scieszka

I can write a book in probably three months.

— Stephen J. Cannell