Time Quote by Paul J. Silvia

Trying to write while I'm distracted definitely doesn't work for me. I'm also a compulsive saver of my files, so every writing session ends…

— Ian Doescher

As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box,…

— Paul Rudnick

I'm pretty lenient with myself about time - if I feel like taking photographs of small things inside ice cubes or making animal collages,…

— Matthea Harvey

“Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to…

— Paul Rudnick

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

I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us only have…

— Flannery O'Connor

Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the…

— Kim Edwards

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons…

— Nick Flynn

Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office,…

— D. B. Weiss

There isn't a single day I don't do some writing -- if you don't, you won't have a book. When you're self-employed it is…

— Charles de Lint

I try to write every day. I don't beat myself up about word counts, or how many hours are ticking by on the clock…

— Jonathan Lethem

My routine is to create activities for myself unrelated to writing that allow little time for writing. This means that when I do get…

— Anthony McCarten