Come up Quote by Fannie Hurst

As for my slowness as a writer - that's been a struggle, no question. We live in a culture that values and rewards machine-speed…

— Junot Diaz

One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better.

— JoAnn Ross

But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work

— Donna Tartt

I'm not the slowest writer that you know.

— David Remnick

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

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

— Robert Asprin

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

— Mabel Seeley

I was talking to Jackson Browne on the phone. He said, 'I'm the slowest writer in the world.' I said, 'No, no, no. You're…

— Gregg Allman

I can write better than anyone who can write faster,

— A. J. Liebling

What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other person is…

— Norman Mailer

Prose is admittedly an art rooted in social intercourse, and a fiction writer is faster to find a common denominator with his cell mates…

— Joseph Brodsky

From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.

— Quintilian