Slow Writer Quotes

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

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

I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things that happened when I finished 'Drown' was that I got busy living. I'd never travelled, I'd never seen anything. So I did as much travelling as my job teaching would allow.

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

I'm a really slow writer. What I need to start writing on any given day, is a kernel, a line of dialogue, anything I can sense concretely.

It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops.

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've never been a fast writer.

I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer.

I'm pretty slow at writing papers.

I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.

I'm such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. I don't need anything so snappy. I write so slowly that I could write in my own blood without hurting myself.

Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.

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

It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality.

I'm a very slow writer.

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

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 slowly.

It takes me ages to write stuff.

I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer.

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'm not the slowest writer that you know.

If you try to write a novel in L.A., you're a chump; everyone is speeding by, and you're driving a rickshaw.

I am slow. A sentence often takes an hour to compose before I throw it out. What can you do?