I'd been in journalism about two weeks when I realized I…

There are no more slow weeks. I realized this about 3 years ago. Downtime in politics isn't a thing.

— Christopher Michael Cillizza

I've been doing 'America's Newsroom' and lots of other news shows and writing over the years. That's my thing.

— Martha MacCallum

Literature has low enough standards. But we can avoid writing the worst literature if we make ourselves ask ourselves, every two or three sentences…

— Carol Bly

The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

— Alan Dean Foster

Writing is 90% procrastination. It is a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning…

— Paul Rudnick

If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer.

— Fannie Flagg

If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer.…

— Donald Harington

I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems…

— Cameron Crowe

I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing.

— Tony Kushner

As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box,…

— Paul Rudnick

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

Many writers-in-waiting spend a lot of time avoiding the work at hand. The most common way to avoid writing is by procrastination. This is…

— Walter Mosley

I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I’d rather wait till I go through the problem,…

— Yanni

Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.

— Elissa Schappell

I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.

— Clare Boothe Luce