Pace Quote by Donna Tartt

It's more important to get the right writer and the right take than it is to do something in a particular timeframe.

— Gale Anne Hurd

All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of themselves a…

— Graham Swift

When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At…

— Francoise Sagan

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

— Fannie Hurst

A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don't have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then…

— Nora Roberts

All writers are forced to live within deadlines, and deadlines determine how good they can be.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.

— Wallace Shawn

“It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony.”

— George G. Williams

Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

— Margaret Mahy

There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time…

— Anonymous

Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a…

— Mohsin Hamid

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante