Age Quote by Jodi Picoult

I used to say when I was younger, 'I'm exhausted; writers can only write for four hours a day and that's done.' Now I…

— Peter Carey

I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing…

— Noah Baumbach

Now, as I've gotten older I've been able to write more quickly. Sometimes I get in the space of something and I can do…

— Edward Hirsch

When I was younger, I just put off the writing until later in the day, but now I write early every morning to get…

— Patrick Modiano

With writing, I need a lot of time to sit around and do nothing. But now that I have kids, I just don't have…

— Sofia Coppola

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

— Truman Capote

I write every day for two hours. But it's what I do for the other twenty-two hours that allows me to write.

— Don Murray

I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait…

— Wole Soyinka

I don't write all the time. But if I'm writing something, I'll just bang into it every day until it's finished. I write pretty…

— Martin McDonagh

I like to write, but being a busy mother, it is difficult to sit down and write at a stretch.

— Navya Nair

I tend to write during the day so I can see my children at night. But if my kids aren't with me and I…

— Madonna Ciccone

With two kids it's hard to find down time to write so I often write during their nap time.

— Tori Spelling