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

Expect nothing, rely on no one and never show how you're feeling...3 ways to avoid getting hurt.

— Anonymous

One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it.

— Peter Cook

“To become better writers we must become the best thieves and liars in the business. We slink around the pages of everyone else’s work…

— Chris Stocking

If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was often done by men.…

— A. S. Byatt

I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

— Patricia Clarkson

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