Dhobi Ghat' is the only script I actually completed and that I was convinced about wanting to direct.
My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.
My first published novel, 'American Rust,' took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.
From beginning to end, the novel [Dissemblers] took about three and a half years to write. I didn't write it chronologically.
Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.
'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.
It took me three and a half years to become a mom, so it makes me feel so good to know I'm giving my baby the best chance I can to develop a strong immune system and live a healthy life.
I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.
It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
Katrina silenced me for two years. I wrote a 12-page essay on my experience in Katrina, and that's it. I didn't write anything for, like, two, two and a half years after Katrina hit because it was so traumatic.
I think 'Hollow City' only took a year and a half to write... but it felt like two and a half!
And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.
When I was thirty years old and a half, God sent me a bodily sickness, in which I lay three days and three nights; and on the fourth night I took all my rites of Holy Church, and weened not to have lived till day.
It took me three and a half years to go from being sentenced in federal court to going to the Oscars.
It took me two years to realize I had a good solid hit with 'F Troop'... two years to be convinced I was going to stay on, and then they canceled.