I'm an African-American writer, I'm a lazy writer, I'm a…

“Writer's block, for me, is merely a way of saying "I'm too lazy to sit down and give it the proper time." I want…

— Olivia Majors

I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.

— Stephen Sondheim

I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.

— Samuel R. Delany

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

— Dennis Potter

I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what…

— Sarah Dessen

I think I'm a very lazy writer and by that I mean that I do not battle, I don't struggle too hard against it.…

— Wole Soyinka

I have been, earlier in my life, a lazy writer. I'd spend three hours at the gym to avoid writing, or I'd just find…

— Emily Susan Rapp

Twenty years ago, when I started writing, I didn't define myself as an African-American writer. And then you write books and you're focused on…

— Colson Whitehead

Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who lived mostly…

— Edward Hoagland

I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers, and four…

— Wanda Sykes

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

— Anne Rice

“One of the vital things for a writer who’s writing a book, which is a lengthy project and is going to take about a…

— Roald Dahl

American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.

— Bryan Burrough

It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.

— Laurie Anderson

William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,…

— Alice Munro