Brazil Quote by Garrett Hedlund

To tell you the truth, I don't edit much at all. Most times, when I have finished the first draft, that's the book. Of…

— Per Petterson

I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.

— Philip Roth

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating

— Sara Paretsky

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

— Robert B. Parker

I don't write huge books any more. I used to write 1,000 printed pages, but now I write short books. I did one on…

— Paul Johnson

My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along.

— Anne Lamott

I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction.

— Grant Morrison

Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages…

— Dean Koontz

I figure 1000 words a day, or four pages, and sometimes I'll write more, but I'll try not to. Because I think you don't…

— Carolyn See

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage…

— A. N. Wilson

I write quickly with a sense of urgency. I don't edit myself out of existence, meaning I'll try to write 50 or 60 pages…

— Anthony Bourdain

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

— Don Winslow