Four Quote by Marguerite Young

I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.

— Lena Dunham

I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would write when my…

— Bebe Moore Campbell

I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning.

— Fran Lebowitz

There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff…

— Harold H. Greene

I would rise, monk-like, at 6 A.M., speak to no one, make tea, and go immediately to my desk from which I didn't move…

— Howard Jacobson

My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the songs I heard on the…

— Esperanza Spalding

Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and…

— Michael Jackson

Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a habit that…

— Warren Adler

When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a…

— Doris Lessing

For months, I slept at work, even though I had an apartment. I'd fall asleep on the floor at 4:30 A.M. By 7 A.M.,…

— Bikram Choudhury

But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the…

— Stanley Tucci

I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.

— Ann Patchett