Books Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at…

— Anonymous

I write nearly every day. Some days I write for ten or eleven hours. Other days I might only write for three hours. It…

— J. K. Rowling

At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day…

— Tracy Kidder

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

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

When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling around.

— Truman Capote

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

— Truman Capote

Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.

— Charles Stross

I don't have as tight a time limit anymore but I still write in long marathon sessions and then I won't write for a…

— Erin Morgenstern

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

I write 3-4 days a week, 4-5 hours at a time (with lots of breaks). My goal is 2000 words when I sit down…

— Nicholas Sparks