Alan Guth Quotes

It takes me ages to write stuff.

I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.

I really hate to write.

I find writing really difficult - definitely the most difficult of all the things I do.

I've never been a fast writer.

I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.

I hate writing.

I'm not the slowest writer that you know.

I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing.

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

I've been taking longer to write stories lately.

Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

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 write very slowly.

I can write a poem in 10 minutes. I like writing songs; I can write songs in 5 or 10 minutes. My concentration seems very short.

I'm a very slow screenwriter. It takes time for me to write a screenplay. Also, I feel it's not my strength.

I have always found writing very difficult.

I'm a very slow writer.

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

Generally, my notes and outlines comprise more words than my novels. I suppose that's one reason I'm a comparatively slow writer, something that has always bothered me given the fact that other authors can turn out a book every six months while I usually take about two years.

I don't know if I have writing habits. Writing is impossible and every time I have to do it I kind of forget how.

I'm just very, very slow. I would not make it as a journalist, I've got to tell you. I sweat bullets over every sentence, and sometimes, you know, a day will pass and I've written one paragraph, and I've been at the computer for four hours.

I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.

I had never written anything before in my life except maybe in high school when I wrote a short story, and my mother had to put an ending on that.