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You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

I write very slowly.

I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.

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.

I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.

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 don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I could write a whole novel on scrap paper, scribbles and things. I keep looking at it and something develops. For me, using a word processor would mean staring at a screen for too many hours.

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 in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.