Lisa Jewell Quotes

The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type.

All of the men on my staff can type.

Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.

I type 90 words per minute on the typewriter; I type 100 words per minute on the word processor. But, of course, I don't keep that up indefinitely - every once in a while I do have to think a few seconds.

No matter who you are or what you plan to do in life, learn to type!

I write slowly.

It takes me ages to write stuff.

I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.

I'm really fortunate that I type 120 words a minute.

On the traditional computer keyboard, I'm a super-fast touch typist. I mastered touch typing in high school.

Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to be more efficient, but I am not.

I type even faster than I talk. I'm very proud of that. I type so fast. And I have to because the characters are living in real time and I've got to keep up with them. It's a miracle they even give me a royalty.

I can act... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually.

Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.

I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that occupation.

I'm a very slow writer.

I still use a typewriter from time to time, but because I can't type as well as I used to, I really don't use one very much.

I'm trying to learn how to write faster.

It's different every time you write. Sometimes it might be harder than it was the day before. I don't like forcing it, but sometimes, if you force it a little bit, it helps you to push forward, and you get inspired in a way. I've written songs in an hour. And there are songs that have taken me six months.

When I was in college, I could only write on a WordPerfect program.

I have seen cabinet secretaries who type with two fingers.

I think I personally, as a writer, read differently knowing how tough it is to write, knowing how challenging it is to articulate it, to express clearly and economically and with focus and with purpose.

It's a long process for me since I am unable to write a script faster.

I kind of like to write fast. It keeps the pacing up. And it keeps me off the streets.