Kiran Rao Quotes

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

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.

It takes a long, long time to write what I do write.

All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of themselves a 'rate of production,' for whom it's a matter of pride to complete, say, a book every year.

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

I write very slowly.

Out of all of the things I've written, 'Dot' was the quickest from first thoughts to full production.

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.

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.

'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.

I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

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.

My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor.

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.

I've been taking longer to write stories lately.

I've never been a fast writer.

Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

You're always looking for good scripts and when they're not always forthcoming you go mad.

In ten episodes, we were able to do our writers' room first. We did that all summer and wrote for 15 weeks and got everything in really good shape.

I don't actually have to think very hard when I'm writing. I mean, there are times where it's a task, and you have to plug away and plug away. But then there are times when a song writes itself in 15 minutes, and you're just struggling to keep up with it.

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

For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pretty successful year, but I wrote 'The Beforelife' within a year.

These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one.