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I'm a fast writer.

I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.

I write fast, I write beautifully, I write convincingly.

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

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

I kind of like to write fast. It keeps the pacing up. And it keeps me off the streets.

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.

The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.

I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.

Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.