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I don't write quickly, and I don't want to. -- Jay Griffiths
There's no reason you should write any novel quickly. -- John Irving
I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker. -- Caroline B. Cooney
I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material. -- Dan Brown
I often write in pencil on paper and then type up later. It's much quicker than using a keyboard. -- Catherine Fisher
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. -- Dean Koontz
I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes. -- Tom Odell
We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off. -- Randall Terry
You can have the greatest characters in the world and write beautifully, but if nothing's happening, the story falls on its face pretty quickly. -- Jennifer McMahon
I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too. -- Luc Ferrari
It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go home and write about it. It's that quick. -- Harvey Pekar
I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead. -- Kit Williams
My energies get used up quite quickly, and the psychic space I'm in when I write is a very lonely one, so I found that harder and harder to get back to. -- Michel Faber
Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work! -- Wislawa Szymborska
I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft. I can write more quickly than I can read. -- John Irving
I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly. -- Jonathan Franzen
I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary and in some cases life-saving. I've had a few of those relationships, which I value highly. -- Matthew Quick
I had thought up the title, 'The Good Luck of Right Now,' several years ago. I had no idea what it meant or what the book would be about but I thought, 'Someday I'm going to write a book with that title.' -- Matthew Quick
I'm an incredibly emotional person, but I always feel bad about that. The work is therapy... I need to emote wildly while I write. I weep. I'll laugh, get excited, and get up and pace. I try to take the emotional journey with the characters. -- Matthew Quick
When I sit down to write, I don't think, 'OK, what is the next David O. Russell film I can write, or what is Harvey Weinstein going to want to buy?' Or even, 'What are filmgoers going to want.' I try to think, tell a good story. Just do what you do. -- Matthew Quick

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