Away Quote by Steve Toltz

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

— Don Winslow

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

— Robert B. Parker

Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10…

— Lawrence Block

I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages,…

— Elmore Leonard

Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or…

— Joan Didion

When I start a book, I write a minimum of five pages every day, except weekends. If I'm going on a ski trip, I…

— Elizabeth George

If I write a page a day, I feel very good about it.

— Janet Malcolm

I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages might get…

— Dean Koontz

Any kind of writing that's meaningful becomes hard work, so there were times when it would really flow, there were times when I'd get…

— Steve Guttenberg

When I'm working on a book, I try to do eight pages a week. That seems like a good amount. Less than that, I'm…

— Colson Whitehead

Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.

— Patricia Reilly Giff