Busy Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."

— Aleksandar Hemon

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

— Thomas Carlyle

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

— Jules Renard

Writing is thinking in slow motion.

— Walter Kaufmann

Busyness, I feel increasingly, is the writer's curse and downfall. You read too much and write too readily, you become cut off from your…

— Hilary Mantel

When I'm writing I get easily bored.

— Herman Koch

Writing is a lonely process.

— Rajkumar Hirani

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

Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.

— Gail Godwin

It takes me ages to write stuff.

— Chris Lilley

It takes a long, long time to write what I do write.

— Joseph O'Neill

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

— Norman Mailer