Cents Quote by Jack Vance

I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that occupation.

— Walter Cronkite

I write four or five a books a year. That means that I usually have one on the go. I am fortunate in being…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

— Naguib Mahfouz

When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a…

— Doris Lessing

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story.…

— Eric Brown

“Treat writing as a job. Be disciplined. Lots of writers get a bit OCD-ish about this. Graham Greene famously wrote 500 words a day.…

— Sarah Waters

I treat writing like a nine to five job.

— Dawn O'Porter

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I do a lot of writing. People don't actually know how much writing really I do.

— Tory Lanez

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

— Mike Rutherford

I spend 99 percent of my time writing.

— Tana Mongeau

It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would…

— Junot Diaz