#slowly

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#case #day #doing #fewer #fortunately

It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#detection #especially #even #good #inside

I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#artists #detest #i #other #otherwise

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#book #i #like #makes #more

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#doing #even #i #i write #long

I've slowly gone back, later on in life, to fish and then chicken and then, last year, red meat. ↗

— Sarah Chalke

#chicken #fish #gone #i #last

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. ↗

— Richard Wright

#beaten #books #dream #experience #i

I've had a bad time, which we won't dwell on. We were married and we worked together for 52 years, and suddenly with her gone I was a quadriplegic. Slowly I'm crawling back. ↗

— Hume Cronyn

#bad #bad time #crawling #dwell #gone

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears. ↗

— Alfred Douglas

#forged #good #link #patiently #poetry

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. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#because #briefly #chiefly #far #few