Arguing Quote by Peter De Vries

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you…

— Franklin P. Adams

We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal

— Edgar Allan Poe

“If this book looks like it took me 15 minutes to put together, that’s because it did! 30 seconds to write it, and 14.5…

— Jarod Kintz

“Time, though infinite, is paradoxically also short, and, to be blunt, getting shorter.”

— James Treadwell

How long a time lies in one little word?

— William Shakespeare

“Time goes fast, the world is one paradox full of answers and questions.”

— Deyth Banger

It seemed better to delay thinking.

— Charles Bukowski

In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.

— Raymond Aron

You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.

— Martial

I am slow. A sentence often takes an hour to compose before I throw it out. What can you do?

— Edith Pearlman

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time.

— Harlan Coben