Able Quote by Melissa de la Cruz

For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.

— Anne Enright

One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a…

— John Lescroart

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I…

— Robert Caro

I publish six books a year now, which is very exciting. But it keeps me into my typewriter at all times! Now that my…

— Danielle Steel

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

I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't occur to…

— Peter Carey

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why…

— Ken Thompson

I often meet frustrated young writers who say they've only got so far and just can't finish a book. Even if you don't happen…

— Eoin Colfer

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day;…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I wrote 'Sophie's World' in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when I'm working…

— Jostein Gaarder

It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would…

— Junot Diaz

I've thought about writing, but it hasn't happened yet. It's like schoolwork - you start doing your revisions two nights before you're compelled to…

— Anonymous