Edits Quote by Fran Lebowitz

If I tried to write long-hand, I suppose I'd never finish a novel. I edit too much as I write - the paper would…

— Nicholas Sparks

I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on subsequent drafts,…

— Chevy Stevens

They write them long because they can't write them short.

— Raymond Chandler

Nearly all novels are too long.

— Rose Macaulay

I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer.

— Elizabeth Berg

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

— Joseph Heller

Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I have a…

— Fran Lebowitz

If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year…

— Charles Stross

The longer I carry on, the more difficult writing seems to get.

— W. G. Sebald

I really don't write much anymore, and I'm not uncomfortable with that. I've tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write…

— Lawrence Block

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write…

— Dirk Benedict

I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.

— Celia Green