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It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.
If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to.
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
I wasn't prepared to get a mammogram until I was 40 years old, like I'd been told. I never in my wildest dreams expected anything to be wrong.
In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.
I always thought I was a writer on the inside, but after a few years of not writing, you can't make that claim anymore.
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week.
I've been nine stone for 20 years. I always eat what I want; it's not an issue for me.
I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.