Actually Quote by Kate Atkinson

I like to write, but being a busy mother, it is difficult to sit down and write at a stretch.

— Navya Nair

I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the…

— Junot Diaz

With writing, I need a lot of time to sit around and do nothing. But now that I have kids, I just don't have…

— Sofia Coppola

I used to feel that I spent too much of my time in my pajamas doing nothing, and I'd think 'in the time that…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.

— Erica Jong

But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the…

— Orson Scott Card

If you think that what you're doing is not all that important in the larger scheme of things and that you're just an insignificant…

— Pankaj Mishra

My writing goal is just this desperation to get as much done as possible. It's never a comfortable, relaxed thing. Especially because I know…

— Steve Toltz

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

It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last…

— Naomi Klein

I haven't had the time to do a lot of writing. But nothing's really changed about me. It's just my day-to-day activities have changed,…

— D'Angelo

I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.

— Wallace Shawn