Writer's Pace Quotes

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

I've never been a fast writer.

I'm a very careful, slow writer, and I think a lot of that comes from the care required to be a hand-printer, where if something isn't spaced out enough, you take little slivers of brass or copper and put them between each letter.

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.

I'm a very slow writer.

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

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

I've been accused, many times, as a writer/director, of my pace being too leisurely and too long.

I was not very good at newspaper reporting. I'm just not quick enough, and I always tend to tell things as stories.

I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.