Book Quote by John Irving

I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the…

— John Irving

I wish I could go back and rewrite my first book, You Bright and Risen Angels; I could do a better job. But in…

— William T. Vollmann

The first thing is, you can't write movie music if you don't know how to write quickly.

— Alexandre Desplat

I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.

— Dan Brown

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

— Quintilian

As a journalist you have to think quickly, you're exposed to all types of people and situations and you've got to synthesize your thoughts…

— Frank Spotnitz

Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to…

— Wislawa Szymborska

I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.

— Jay Griffiths

“I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head.”

— Lettie Prell

The verbs that are used for people who write quickly are almost never flattering.

— Laura Lippman

I do read very, very quickly. I do process data very quickly. And so I write very quickly. And it is embarrassing because there…

— Jackie French

I don't really do much social media. I just don't like it that much. I've trained myself to write very slowly for a lot…

— George Saunders