Deadline Quote by Julia Glass

Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like…

— Charles Frazier

I've never signed a contract, so never have a deadline. A deadline's an unnerving thing. I just finish a book, and if the publisher…

— Marchette Chute

I think I've learned over the years, because you'd have to be stupid not to, that when a book publisher gives you a deadline…

— Dave Barry

I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I didn't have…

— George R. R. Martin

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and…

— Erica Jong

All writers are forced to live within deadlines, and deadlines determine how good they can be.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

— David Baldacci

My publishers find me really challenging, as a lot of the time, I don't even know what I'm going to be writing about until…

— Lisa Jewell

I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.

— Timothy Dalton

One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and…

— Walter Kirn

Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work…

— David Lindsay-Abaire

I taught everyone a very bad lesson at my publisher because they actually gave me deadlines this time and I'm now meeting them. I…

— Nathan Englander