“I set myself a goal of two pages a day. Some days I get it, some days I don’t. If I’m writing dialog I can usually get more than that because I can write dialog fairly quickly. But the descriptive passages, the philosophical passages where I’m paying even more attention to imagery and to metaphors and similes and figures of speech, that comes very slow. I write very, very slowly and I try never to leave a sentence until I think that it’s as perfect as I can make it. So I’ll just go sentence to sentence, almost word to word. Plug along.”
—Tom Robbins