I write very slowly.

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

— Fran Lebowitz

I write slowly. I can't move on until I've got a paragraph right.

— Nick Hornby

When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always…

— Nicolas Roeg

When I write songs, it's very random. I get influenced by the most random things! Sometimes it just comes to me in my sleep…

— Roshon Fegan

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and…

— Erica Jong

I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.

— Junot Diaz

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

— Octavia Butler

I write slowly.

— Yann Martel

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.

— Dan Brown

I used to joke about this but I've recently realized that I really believe it: I spent many years training myself to write very…

— George Saunders

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…

— Fran Lebowitz

I don't really do much social media. I just don't like it that much. I've trained myself to write very slowly for a lot…

— George Saunders

Required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty… Weakened in body by infirmities and in mind by age, now far gone…

— Thomas Jefferson

I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength is.

— Patrick Rothfuss