Quick Writing Quotes

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

And I think Taylor Swift is just an exemplary young lady. It's kind of interesting to see what a profound songwriter she is. I don't even think anyone has realized, the long term is going to be the bigger revelation. It's incredible how quickly she writes songs. We've hung out a couple times, we live near each other in Nashville.

In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.

It always seems to someone outside the business that it is very difficult to write for a comedy show because it must be done quickly. Actually, it is much easier to write this humor than to do a joke or a show from scratch, because the audience knows the plot. Just mention what is going on and then deliver the punch line.

'Love Story' I wrote on my bedroom floor in about 20 minutes.

The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

I find the ones that have the most emotional weight, the heaviest songs. For some reason, for me, they're usually the ones I write the quickest. I put more work into uplifting material, I think, sometimes.

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

Do you know how long it took me to write 'For a Few Dollars More'? Nine days.

It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go home and write about it. It's that quick.

If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.

When I write songs, it happens very quickly, sometimes 10 to 15 minutes, and I draw inspiration from everything.

I'd much prefer to write more quickly.

One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.

For each detail I include, I throw dozens away. So I guess the first trick is to pick the right details, the most revealing details. Then I think one must simply write quick, clean, bright prose. For me, this means rewriting and rewriting: almost never adding, almost always cutting.

I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.

I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that occupation.

I showed up pretty much at the exact right moment to end up with a lot of work on my plate very quickly, because I was young and foolish, and so I wrote very quickly.