Book Quote by T. J. Stiles

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

— Cynthia Kadohata

I think I've learned over the years, because you'd have to be stupid not to, that when a book publisher gives you a deadline…

— Dave Barry

Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

— Kate Atkinson

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

— Ted Bell

It takes a long time to publish a book.

— Kenneth Koch

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.

— Randy Alcorn

I can tell you that when Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, our writer, when she would work on some of these grander novels like, say, a…

— James Ivory

One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people…

— Andrew Tobias

The good thing about working on the books for 14 years before they hit the shelves is that I worked out most of the…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Most books germinate within you for a long time before they are ready to come out. I wrote several drafts of the novel over…

— Pankaj Mishra

Usually, I would mistrust a book if it took that long to write. Usually, if it isn't done in two years, I suspect there's…

— John Burnside

Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months for 'Shard,'…

— Linda Sue Park