Charles Frazier Quotes

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.

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

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

It takes me ages to write stuff.

I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that's from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M.

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.

I'm a very slow writer.

Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.

I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged two and a half books a year.

I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, and I'll go through these little bursts of time where I write a lot of things then a long period of time where maybe I don't write anything.

Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages.

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.

Don't force yourself to write. Some people can write a novel in a few months, whereas for others it can take over a year. I'm lucky to be one of the former - but, even so, if I'm not in the mood to write, I won't. I'll go off, do something else and come back to it when I'm ready.

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

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

I've never been a fast writer.

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

In weeks when I was writing a novel, I followed a five-day schedule, doing about thirty pages a day, so a typical Ace novel would take me six or seven days to write.

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

I can only write about two or three pages of fiction a day.

I write everywhere. I've written books while I was on planes, at Disney World, and in multiple countries of which I am not a native. It can be a struggle to make word count sometimes, but I will persevere!

Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.

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

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.