Fighting Quote by Gloria Steinem

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could…

— Charles Palliser

It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last…

— Naomi Klein

Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.

— Tobias Wolff

My constant battle is putting aside time wasters, and I have to watch out for procrastination. Staying on the path of something you're trying…

— Ruby Dee

I try to naturally keep things to a manageable storytelling length, which is about two hours, so you try to cut out anything extraneous.

— Martin McDonagh

My time is far too valuable for me to spend any of it trying to improve myself.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

I never thought that it would take me so long to do something. I thought everything was temporary and sometimes the best thing you…

— Steve Toltz

For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the…

— Jan Karon

“Creative exhaustion is first cousin to writer’s block. First off, I try to accept that when it hits, I am not wasting time, but…

— Sue Isle

If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I…

— Peter Ackroyd

I try not to stop too long and look at the things that I am doing or have done because I feel like there…

— Aleister Black

When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the…

— Dave Grohl