My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.
I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing.
As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.
I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft. I can write more quickly than I can read.
I write fast, I write beautifully, I write convincingly.
The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.
I'm a fast writer.
I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.
I try to write very fast. I don't revise very much. I write the poem in one sitting. Just let it rip. It's usually over in twenty to forty minutes. I'll go back and tinker with a word or two, change a line for some metrical reason weeks later, but I try to get the whole thing just done.
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.