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So how long does it take to write a book?

Not very long if you know how. Here are some writers and books you've probably heard of:

Ray Bradbury: 9.5 days

Fahrenheit 451

Barbara Cartland: 14 days

26 books in one year (1983)
723 books published in her lifetime
A further 150+ published posthumously

Alexandre Dumas père: 3 days

Boulevard Comedy (stage play)

Viktor Frankl: 9 days

Man's Search for Meaning

Dave Haslett: 23 days

The Fastest Way to Write Your Book

Ernest Hemingway: 6 weeks

Jack Kerouac: 3 days

The Subterraneans

Stephen King: 7 days

A novel written under the pen name of Richard Bachman

D.H. Lawrence: 6 weeks

Walter Scott: 10.5 days

Two Waverley novels in three weeks

Georges Simenon: 6 days

A Maigret novel

Evelyn Waugh: 6 weeks

You: ???

Your book

Please let me know if you come across any other examples and I'll add them to this page.