Avoiding Quote by T.C. Boyle

Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you that the…

— Esther Freud

“One thing writers have in common is the need to procrastinate. People don't really understand this, but it's not avoiding work, it is work.…

— Steven T. Seagle

I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart.

— Abi Morgan

Sometimes the way comes later, when I'm not working or thinking about it at all. When stories don't work, you try to convince yourself…

— Mary J. Miller

In the writers' room, the challenge is always to tell interesting stories in unexpected ways, so we try to never limit ourselves in how…

— Nahnatchka Khan

Like most writers, I sit in a room and scribble a story and you don't have a connection with the people who take your…

— Michael Morpurgo

Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build…

— Ray Bradbury

When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that in literature,…

— Isabel Allende

To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do with family…

— Ted Allen

I'm always in the kitchen, cooking and experimenting - I love it. And every now and then I think, 'I should write a cookbook'…

— Kiran Desai

For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.

— Ann-Margret

Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story.

— Julia Child