Charlatans Quote by Peter Ackroyd

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could…

— Charles Palliser

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.

— Haruki Murakami

When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling around.

— Truman Capote

Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.

— Tobias Wolff

I'm pretty hardcore. I stick exactly to what I'm doing. So I write a novel in one period, and then I'll write stories in…

— T.C. Boyle

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

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

People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or…

— Octavia Butler

Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.

— Jess Walter

I feel like I could devote myself to far more important things than writing novels.

— Sally Rooney

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

Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.

— Charles Stross