I kind of like to write fast. It keeps the pacing up. And…

Everybody won’t like everything you write. Some people won’t like anything you write. Get over it.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.

— Richard Price

I digress a lot - it's how I experience the world. I would like to write in a way that will convey that to…

— Claire Messud

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like…

— John Steinbeck

That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it…

— Ruth Ozeki

What a joy Mary Jo Putney is to read; she can't write fast enough for me.

— Laura Kinsale

“We should be told: Write fast, write close to the bone, write for ten hours straight until you’re not thinking in words anymore, but…

— Bonnie Friedman

I write fast, I write beautifully, I write convincingly.

— James Toback

I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every day. I…

— Paulo Coelho

“Write as much as you can. As fast as you can. Finish your shit. Hit your deadlines. Try very hard not to suck.”

— Chuck Wendig

First, consider the pen you write with. It should be a fast-writing pen because your thoughts are always much faster than your hand. You…

— Natalie Goldberg

As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two…

— Helen Hunt Jackson

“The dull people don't write interesting books. But they sure as hell can write them thick and fast.”

— Abram Gitspof

When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other…

— Dylan Moran