Luvvie Ajayi Quotes

I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.

Making a book is such a big enterprise.

Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.

I do the same kind of rewriting that I do in the shorts that I do in long books - and that is a lot. The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

I really appreciate what it takes to create a book. I understand the loneliness that it involves and the excitement and the vulnerability: I especially identify with that.

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

The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising are those who get published.

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

I spend about a year between novels.

An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

When I first told people I was writing a book, some would say that was interesting, but others thought it was some holiday project and I would lose interest. I think my parents thought the same thing, and they were surprised when I kept going. I'm not sure I thought I would keep going, but then it became a big part of my life.

I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

If I ever write a book, it will be called 'Bottle Blonde.'

I give each book however long it needs to be the best I can make it.

Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

A one-hundred-thousand-word novel might take a year or several years, and then you just come to 'The End' one day. But it takes hundreds of days to get to 'The End.' As a writer, you have to put in those hundreds of days.

You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.

I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.

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

Each new book is a tremendous challenge.

Writing is hard, hard work; that's just the way it is.