Everything Quote by Ian Rankin

I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers.

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

The best way for me to procrastinate as a writer is research.

— Quiara Alegria Hudes

I think I'm a very lazy writer and by that I mean that I do not battle, I don't struggle too hard against it.…

— Wole Soyinka

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want…

— Katherine Paterson

A writer's work is the product of laziness.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“The best thing about being a writer is the ability to live vicariously through your own imagination, with no boundaries as to how you…

— Dawn Goodwin

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

I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.

— Samuel R. Delany

I love to write just about more than anything, but there are times I have to force myself to sit down and work. I…

— Chelsea Cain

I hate being called lazy, so when everybody gets up at half seven in the morning, I'm up at the same time. Everyone goes…

— Nadine Shah

A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy…

— Louise Penny

“Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to…

— Paul Rudnick