Book Quote by Sefi Atta

When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and that's fine.…

— Pam Houston

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is…

— Marilyn Hacker

No strict schedule, but I write nearly daily in my journal. Sometimes I go back and pull out things to give to my characters…

— Marie Bradby

When I am writing a novel, though, then it's usually three or four hours a day. Ideally, right after lunch until three or four,…

— Stephen Graham Jones

I do not write by any set time schedule. I realize there are many writers who follow a daily regime where they arise at…

— Donald McKay

I always write on unlined typing paper and write the first draft in longhand, using cheap Bic pens. I try to write about four…

— Tess Gerritsen

At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day…

— Tracy Kidder

I begin early in the morning and edit everything I wrote the previous day. I write until mid-afternoon. My goal is to write a…

— Virginia Henley

I am not a person of schedule when it comes to writing.

— Pankaj Kapur

Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and prepare my…

— Elie Wiesel

Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was all it…

— Caroline Lawrence

I write first drafts by hand, often out of the house somewhere, and then, when I've got a draft, type it up and let…

— David Means