Break Quote by Eden Robinson

By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that…

— John Newcombe

I'm almost back to being able to write as much as six hours a day .

— Justine Larbalestier

Writing does not numb, comfort, or soothe me. It does the opposite. It tends to excite me and reinscribe pain. It doesn't function as…

— Myriam Gurba

I go through long periods of time when I don't write, and I'm fine.

— Ann Patchett

I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing.

— David Foster Wallace

When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.

— Truman Capote

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can't quite keep up with…

— Rainbow Rowell

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 start work at 7 A.M. and write all day, seven days a week. If I don't write, I can't sleep.

— Anthony Horowitz

I can't sit and twiddle my thumbs. I have to start writing even if it's miserable some days.

— Sarah Dessen

I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing…

— Philip Roth

Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings