Quotes About Writing Procrastination

#1. Write it down now! You may never know who will read it tomorrow!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#2. Writing is 90% procrastination, 8% perspiration, and 6%biscuit
None of it is math.

Almney King

#3. Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin.

Victor Kiam

#4. What a tribute this is to art; what a misfortune this is for history.
(In reference to Shakespeare's 'Richard III')

Paul Murray Kendall

#5. As far as I am concerned this referendum should settle the matter. I believe it will one way or another be decisive. Britain will not want to go through this again. On the other hand if we vote to leave, this really is irreversible.

David Cameron

#6. I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I'm on my way to my desk, my hands actually tremble with fear. The fear, of course, is that I'll sit down at the desk and discover that what I've written is claptrap. Fear inevitably leads to procrastination.

Rosemary Mahoney

#7. 'Purple Plumeria' I dithered over for months and then wrote the whole thing between the beginning of July and end of August. The dithering and procrastination time was three times the writing times.

Lauren Willig

#8. Identifying Your Dream
Some people can easily identify one primary dream. For others, a dream is more elusive. These people often have many dreams at once, or a general idea of a dream that never takes a specific shape.

SARK

#9. For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.

Adam Mansbach

#10. The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

Alan Dean Foster

#11. Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

Don Roff

#12. I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all my quirky habits have to do with procrastination and avoidance rather than with work. I'm slowly trying to stamp those out.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#13. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write.

Paul Rudnick

#14. I'm writing a book on Procrastination. I hope to start it tomorrow. I've been thinking about it for almost six years now.

Ron Moore

#15. Meaningful work, creative work, thoughtful work, important work - this type of effort takes stretches of uninterrupted time to get into the zone. But in the modern office such long stretches just can't be found. Instead, it's just one interruption after another.

Jason Fried

#16. Perfectionism is procrastination masquerading as quality control.

Steven Barnes

#17. When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.

Noah Baumbach

#18. God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. I get my best writing done when I'm supposed to be doing something else entirely. And that's why I keep my day job.

Joyce Rachelle

#20. Hey girl," he said, wiggling his eyebrows. "You must be the riptide, 'cause you sweep me off my feet."
He'd be practicing that pickup line for years. He was glad he finally got yo use it.

Rick Riordan

#21. If you have ever experienced that feeling of being "stuck" with writing, it is not because you haven't put your butt in a chair. It's because you are suffering from emotional procrastination toward writing.

Monica Leonelle

#22. Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not.

SARK

#23. The real difference between those who want to write and those that do, is that those that do get up every day and do it.

Leonard Wolf

#24. Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

Michael Dirda