Effects Quote by Nadine Gordimer

We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end,…

— Julia Cameron

I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those…

— Harlan Coben

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that…

— John Irving

A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don't have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then…

— Nora Roberts

No time you spend writing will be wasted - even if you write something that's bad.

— Elif Batuman

Writing is a completely private act. It's in a way like play but very serious play, and sometimes I can escape into the fictional…

— Antonya Nelson

For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably…

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time.

— Harlan Coben

It's very easy for a writer to spend much too much time in her head.

— Naomi Alderman

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

— Carlos Fuentes

Some writers sit down every day for two or three hours, at least, to write, whether they are in the mood or not. Others…

— Robert Hilburn