Authorship Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

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

Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.

— Arnold Schoenberg

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

— Andrea Hirata

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

— George Sand

Writing is thinking in slow motion.

— Walter Kaufmann

It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting.

— Peter Greenaway

Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.

— James Gleick

I used to joke about this but I've recently realized that I really believe it: I spent many years training myself to write very…

— George Saunders

The Internet and all its lures are much, much harder than anything I've ever encountered. If you're writing on a computer, the very instrument…

— Dani Shapiro

“Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet…

— Jonathan Franzen