Busy Quote by John Updike

My life is very busy with a lot of things, and so I don't get uninterrupted time. When I do, I can just write…

— Ru Freeman

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

— Robert Hass

My advice to anyone with writerly ambitions and a demanding day job is to set aside a little piece of time, even an hour…

— Camille Perri

I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do…

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

I tend to only write productively for one to two hours per day, so there is plenty of time left over for me to…

— Liza Campbell

I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately I feel like it all the…

— Eve Bunting

As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box,…

— Paul Rudnick

My writing life is pretty simple - I try to work every day, almost always in the mornings - and I can only write…

— Jonathan Lethem

Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I think my goal is to find a way to spend all of my time writing. I mean, sort of; true success is I'm…

— Shonda Rhimes

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

Every day I try to do some small thing connected to writing. Or I'll station myself at a café and try to hold myself…

— Diana Abu-Jaber