Day Quote by Candace Bushnell

When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling around.

— Truman Capote

I write about six to seven hours a day, five days a week, unless I'm traveling.

— Jason Reynolds

I guess I write four or five hours a day, but I do it seven days a week. It's very disciplined, yes, but it's…

— James Patterson

I treat writing like a nine to five job.

— Dawn O'Porter

People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a…

— R. L. Stine

I'm not a believer that you have to write every day. If I felt industrious, I'd spend ten hours a week writing. The writing…

— Julia Glass

It's the hardest thing in the world to dedicate to writing, but if you do that even once a week, after six months or…

— Lauren Weisberger

While writing is a mystical process, it's also work. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat…

— John Darnielle

Like everyone else, there are days when I don't want to go to work. However, writing is a job like anything else.

— Francine Rivers

If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.

— Julia Cameron

For me, the process always has to be pretty intense. I could never write just two or three days a week. It had to…

— Chad Harbach