Fannie Hurst Quotes

It takes me ages to write stuff.

I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.

I've never been a fast writer.

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

One wouldn't want to say that what makes a good writer is the number of books that the writer wrote because you could write a whole number of bad books. Books that don't work, mediocre books, or there's a whole bunch of people in the pulp tradition who have done that. They just wrote... and actually they didn't write a whole bunch of books, they just wrote one book many times.

I write slowly.

For the past few years my fans have made it very clear that they would like to read my novels and revisit my family of characters faster than I can write them. For them, I am willing to make a change to my working methods so the stories in my head can reach the page more frequently.

Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.

I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.

I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need to write a lot in order to figure out what's good and what's crap.

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

Most writers can write three times as many books as I have and still live a life.

My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

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've found the 90-10 rule to be pretty true: 90 percent of what I come up with and write down is kinda 'eh,' and then somehow, someway, 10 percent of it happens to work out really great in my act.

Of the 60 movies I wrote, more than half were written in two weeks or less.

There is a prevailing school of thought that something good must take time, sometimes years to create and hone. I have always felt that the books I have written fastest have been my best - because I caught an unstoppable momentum in the writing.

So where a lot of people will spend three weeks on one song, I will write 10 in three weeks. Maybe the song that they sculpt is going to be as successful as just one of the 10 that I wrote.

The fastest I've ever done a book is a 112,000-word book in about a month.

I write at a pace that suits me, and sometimes it's two books a year, but most often it's one.

I've written a lot of songs in the last couple years, but writing a lot of songs doesn't always mean writing good songs.

I'm a very slow writer.

I write so much and I release so much music that I think I'm less precious about that stuff than a lot of people.

It's pretty funny to me when I hear people say, 'I write six songs every day,' or, 'I turn out a song a day.' I bet you that's a whole week of bad songs.

After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.