Different people Quote by Roald Dahl

“The life of a writer is absolute hell compared with the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to work. He…

— Roald Dahl

Fiction -- at least for me -- requires long, relatively uninterrupted time stretches in which to bring it to fruition. I've never been a…

— Samuel R. Delany

Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.

— Deborah Eisenberg

Writers’ lives break into two halves,

— John Updike

You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.

— Wallace Shawn

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s…

— Paul Auster

I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the…

— Arthur Smith

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

— Richard Russo

There's no reason that a writer, if they have some discipline and curiosities and passion, can't be vital for a long, long time.

— Peter Hedges

I don't think there is enough respect in general for the time it takes to write consistently good fiction. Too many people think they…

— Tananarive Due

Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

— Rose Wilder Lane

Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.

— Nelson Algren