Accepting Quote by Frederic Chopin

You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.

— William Goldman

a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time…

— Nadine Gordimer

Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible.

— Diana Athill

Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished.

— Herta Muller

Whatever I'm doing, I try to write well. I try to give the reader a nice, clean well-written surface, where the writing is transparent.…

— Shelby Steele

“In time, most children stop being puzzled in this way. They settle in. The world around them, as it becomes familiar and daily, becomes…

— David Malouf

“One of the hardest concepts for students to grasp or accept about writing is the time that it takes to make something good.”

— Cynthia D. Urbanski

Writing time has to be created.

— Gillian Roberts

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something is happening…

— Tom Perrotta

Remember that the reader's attention is yours for only a single instant. They will not use up their valuable time trying to figure out…

— John Caples

The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.

— Seamus Heaney