Jerry Spinelli Quotes

Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite.

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

Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months for 'Shard,' three years for 'When My Name Was Keoko!' The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish.

'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

I spend about a year between novels.

I'm publicizing the book that's done. I'm writing the book that's in the hopper, and I'm doing a little advance research on the book to come.

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

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

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.

I'm remembering one book that I wrote, 'Fourth Grade Rats,' that took a month to write, but most of them, full-length novels, I would say about a year.

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

'Library of Souls' is longer than 'Hollow City' by a considerable margin, but this time I was on the right track from the beginning, so I never had to start over. It took about 15 months, all told.

I write my books never thinking of an actor.

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 to take longer, it can.

As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.

When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

I can write a book in probably three months.

The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.

What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.

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

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

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 books take a lot longer to do.

Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.