Best writing & hours Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Occasionally when I'm procrastinating writing, I'll while away the hours on iTunes. You can just keep going forever and find these bands you'd never normally hear of.”

Writing Hours Forever Band Keep Going Procrastinating Itunes

Author:Marisha Pessl

“My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.”

Giving Writing Force Hours Sleep Pleasure Trifles Unproductive

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If you have a notebook and a nice pen you can go off somewhere, you can write that's solar powered. You can drop it or get it wet and pretty much all of your work will continue to be there. If you suddenly decide to look up a word or check a reference you will not look up four hours later, blinking, finding yourself somehow in the middle of an Ebay auction you never had any plans to be part of.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Looks Hours Four Nice Plans Middle Findings Checks These Days Things To Do Look Up Finding Yourself Pens Wet Marvelous Notebook Auctions Ebay Marvelous Things

Author:Neil Gaiman

“If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're more likely to see that invisible thing that is invisible for the first few days in any new writing. We just can't know what all is in a sentence until there are several sentences to follow it. Pages of writing need more pages in order to be known, chapters need more chapters.”

Ifs Knows Needs Writing Firsts Order Waiting Hours Known Fate Written Pages Sentences Invisible Chapters Invisible Things

Author:Lynda Barry

“For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7, make breakfast and go to work. Or, come home and work for an hour. Everybody has an hour in their day somewhere.”

Writing Firsts Home Hours Morning First Time Get Up Novelists Coming Home Breakfast

Author:Ridley Pearson

“I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.”

Writing I Can Two Voice Can Do Hours Sleep Lists Magazines Groceries I Can Do It Grocery Lists

Author:Ann Patchett

“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 for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break.”

Writing Years Littles Bits Hours Break Week Months Couple Little Bit Pace

Author:Amy Ray

“I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.”

Writing Two Hours My Family Fourteen

Author:Brandon Sanderson

“When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.”

Writing Hours Novel Week

Author:Dean Koontz

“Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.”

Knows Giving Writing Has Beens Pain Heaven Hours Chance Journey Reader Bitter Heartache Relaxation Tedium Bitter Experience

Book:The Moon and Sixpence

Source: The Moon and Sixpence

“Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.”

Writing Years Hours Imagination Novel Streets Land Borders Shopping Factories Workplace Unreal Cathedrals Expeditions

Book:An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography

Source: An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography

“I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing.”

Writing Hours Worry Eight Biting Knuckles

Author:David Foster Wallace

“Sneaking up on it sometimes helps: I've found I can be very productive for an hour before dinner, because there obviously isn't enough time to really do anything, so I can tell myself I'm just screwing around.”

Writing I Can Sometimes Enough Helping Found Hours Dinner Productive Enough Time Sneaking Up

Author:Michael Crichton

“I used to be a pre-industrial writer: thousands of words in a spurt and then a few days off. But as I get older, I've switched to a mode best described as 'slow and steady wins the race.' Basically, I write during the same four hours every day, after breakfast and the all-important coffee, generally in the same room and wearing the same pajamas.”

Writing Important Used Winning Hours Rooms Race Four Coffee Used To Be Breakfast Steady Days Off Pajamas Slow And Steady

Author:Scott Westerfeld

“I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.”

Needs Writing I Can Hours My Own Masters Couple Solitude Computer Chapters

Author:Stuart Woods

“I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.”

Writing Littles Play Kids House Hours Wife Six Summer My Family My Wife Maine

Author:Ben Marcus

“I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you've got three weeks, and so on.”

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Author:Markus Zusak

“It’s a job. It’s not a hobby. You don’t write the way you build a model airplane. You have to sit down and work, to schedule your time and stick to it. Even if it’s just for an hour or so each day, you have to get a babysitter and make the time. If you’re going to make writing succeed you have to approach it as a job.”

Ifs Way Writing Jobs Hours Succeed Approach Models Down And Sticks Each Day Airplane Hobbies Schedules Babysitter

Author:Rosellen Brown

“Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.”

Writing Wells Hard Inspiration Song Hours Week Hard Work Guitar Piano

Author:Bjorn Ulvaeus

“I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself.”

Writing Stuff Waiting Hours Common Acting Scripts Timing Immediacy

Author:Lukas Haas

“Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.”

Writing Book Whole Light Running Earth Hours Written Mankind Century Pages Understood Presses Spread Newspapers Journalism Extremity

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer.”

Writing Night Asks Hours Answers Silent

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay used to do, they write for two hours, then pitch quoits, and then go back to their writing. But certainly more than the mere mechanical alternation is involved.”

Ifs Writing Two Inspiration Used Hours Involved Mere Planning Beach Professors Classroom Lectures

Book:The Courage to Create

Source: The Courage to Create

“everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.”

Want Writing Trying Humans Long Happens Humanity Hours Four Communication Draws Garden Letters Twenties Dresses Express Yourself

Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.”

Writing Three Hours Six Pages Eight Satisfied Agony

Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Kind Stills Hard Hours Levels Wake Up Coffee Concentration Sunday Lighters Weekdays

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“I spend 60 hours a week on my business but I don't work for a minute. Work is hard. But what I do - writing, speaking, researching, learning, and sharing information - is pure joy. It's what I was called to do.”

Writing Hard Joy Hours Work Week Minutes Information Pure Pure Joy Sharing Information

Author:Carmine Gallo

“Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again.”

Writing Children Young Hours Youth Reader Fountain Fountain Of Youth

Author:Iain Lawrence

“I did a thing called 24 Hour Plays, a thing they do every year on Broadway. A bunch of playwrights and actors get together, you write a play and you act it out in 24 hours, literally. People pay and the money goes to charity. So I did one - I was horrible. I was bad. I was terrified. And I was like, "Oh, I gotta do this again." Because I know I can do it.”

People Knows Writing Years I Can Play Together Actors Can Do Hours Pay Charity Horrible Bunch Terrified Broadway Playwright Get Together I Can Do It

Author:Scott Raab

“Writing is a completely private act. It's in a way like play but very serious play, and sometimes I can escape into the fictional world that I'm creating so fully as to see hours go by without my noticing it. I think that kind of suspension of time and that mindfulness is a real gift.”

Thinking World Way Writing Kind I Can Real Sometimes Play Hours Serious Mindfulness Creating Noticing Suspension Fictional Worlds

Author:Antonya Nelson

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