I can Quote by Shel Silverstein

On an average day, I spend 12 hours listening to music. Very little writing.

— Michel Faber

Thinking is the activity I love best, and writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. I can write up to 18 hours…

— Isaac Asimov

Basically it takes me very little time to write a song. If I find myself taking more than an hour to do it I…

— Bernie Taupin

I am a disciplined person. When I am writing, I write for 7-8 hours.

— Amish Tripathi

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

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

— Ben E. King

I write nearly every day. Some days I write for ten or eleven hours. Other days I might only write for three hours. It…

— J. K. Rowling

Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty minutes.

— Greg Lake

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

— Alanis Morissette

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story.…

— Eric Brown

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.

— Nicholas Sparks

When I write songs, it happens very quickly, sometimes 10 to 15 minutes, and I draw inspiration from everything.

— Maggie Rogers