Birth Quote by Jodi Picoult

As a writer, you play this daft game with yourself - you're constantly looking for distractions, anything to stop you from writing, but you're…

— Irvine Welsh

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

— Jules Renard

Distractions have never prevented a Writing Writer Who Writes from writing; distractions are an excuse proffered by Non-Writing Non-Writers Who are Not-Writing for why…

— Merlin Mann

Bringing my two children up while writing was just a part of life. I'd much rather have had their interruptions than been stuck in…

— Deborah Moggach

“Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Writers have a reputation for being distracted. That's because writers are distracted. They are always tuned into that other voice, the one in their…

— Elizabeth Berg

“One thing writers have in common is the need to procrastinate. People don't really understand this, but it's not avoiding work, it is work.…

— Steven T. Seagle

Writing is a conversation, to me. The best kind. You can't get interrupted.

— Gerald Asher

Writing is busy idleness.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If you're a writer, the problem is that, when you try to call a halt to thinking about your novel-in-progress, your imagination still keeps…

— John Irving

I can't envisage stopping writing.

— Antony Beevor

“I never have time to write, and I always have a thousand distractions in my way. But still, I write. I write because I’m…

— Aaron B. Powell