Rupert Holmes Quotes

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 can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

I write slowly.

It's all about story and character with me, and I don't care if the job is on daytime or prime time or the web. Hey, give me a good character and someone to listen, and I'll do my acting on a street corner.

When I sit down I write very fast... if I haven't finished a book in two or three months then I think it's not going well.

I'm not the slowest writer that you know.

I write fast. I'm one of the lucky ones.

I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.

I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.

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

Early in my career, I decided not to do sequels. I know that children enjoy them, but I valued the feeling that this was the only time I would write about these characters. I felt it gave me an added incentive to do my best by them, to tell readers everything I knew, to hold nothing back.

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes - 'ideas for stories.' Eventually, I began to write it and wrote it fairly swiftly - in perhaps two months of fairly intense writing and rewriting. Most of my time writing is really re-writing.

It just happens I write fast and always have done.

Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real space, in three dimensions, in flesh and blood. I realized I had been trying to cram all this narrative into my paintings, but ultimately painting was a static medium. So it just opened up this whole new door.

If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.

I am a terrible, terrible typist. I could not have been a writer in the age of typewriters.

I suspect many people have the problem that they type much more slowly than they think. Consequently, they keep resynchronizing their thought processes with what they have typed so far, and they match a later part of the thought with an earlier part that they have typed.

With a series, keeping the quality high and writing incredibly fast, that's the first lesson you learn. You can't be real precious. When you're doing a feature film, you have 2 1/2 months; you sort of take your time. It's a different animal.

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

What Time Is It? You Mean Now?

The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.