It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.

It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.

It takes a long time to become young.

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.