Afternoon Quote by Robert Caro

I write from seven to about noon. I used to try to write longer, but I read and I found that I was always…

— Robert Caro

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

When you first quit your regular job and you become a full-time writer, you are paralyzed with free time. You have so much free…

— Matt de la Pena

I tend to only write productively for one to two hours per day, so there is plenty of time left over for me to…

— Liza Campbell

Once upon a time, I was a workaholic clocking more than 80 hours per week. That changed after I began to write. I now…

— Ashwin Sanghi

When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week…

— Amy Ray

When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.

— Truman Capote

I started writing in fourth grade and never stopped. I faked my way through high school and nearly was flushed from college - I…

— W. Bruce Cameron

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

I used to say when I was younger, 'I'm exhausted; writers can only write for four hours a day and that's done.' Now I…

— Peter Carey

In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.

— Paula Fox

I try to treat writing as part of my daily routine: I write for at least two hours, five days per week. I tend…

— Jesmyn Ward