Time To Write Quotes

#1. My river of words and her silence seemed to demonstrate that my life was splendid but uneventful, which left me time to write to her every day, while hers was dark but full

Elena Ferrante

#2. It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose.

Haruki Murakami

#3. I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses.

Charles Stross

#4. Lucy: Our teacher wants us to write an essay on praying. Charlie Brown: Praying is important when you wake up at two o'clock in the morning feeling sick from eating something dumb the day before. Lucy: I'll just say we were out of town and I didn't have time to write anything.

Charles M. Schulz

#5. All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see?

Nikos Kazantzakis

#6. We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end, to scribble a few words, to write for the hell of it instead of for the perfect and polished result.

Julia Cameron

#7. In her memoirs she writes that she left the hospital job because it eventually made her numb to suffering, and it left her no time to write. She neglected

David Brooks

#8. I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.

Etgar Keret

#9. In my brief writing life, it means I am still lucky that I have at least one more novel to complete. I do not expect that a story will arrive just because it is time to write another novel. It doesn't happen that way.

David Bergen

#10. Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite.

Alex Flinn

#11. The men who make history have not time to write it.

Klemens Von Metternich

#12. When we make time to write, we can do it anytime, anywhere.

Julia Cameron

#13. An idea is a gift, a finished project is turning that gift into a book by making yourself write even when you don't want to. There is no such thing as a block of time to write. You have to carve time from a busy day. Elaine L. Orr

Elaine Orr

#14. A 15-minute gap in your day is plenty of time to write and read, but not if you check your email first.

M.J. Pullen

#15. Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.

Paul Westerberg

#16. I never have time to write, and I always have a thousand distractions in my way. But still, I write. I write because I'm somehow obligated to do so. I only hope that there are people who feel the same obligation to read my stories.

Aaron B. Powell

#17. Weirdly the writing experience has not really changed that much except it used to be that I was busy because I had to work a couple of jobs to earn money, so I didn't have time to write.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#18. When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn't exist. TV didn't exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

Ray Bradbury

#19. I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.

Harlan Coben

#20. I would stay [in the newsroom] until 3 am "in case something happened." But I mostly had nothing to do between 1 and 3 am so I used that time to write. And I chose to write about food and wine. Along the way I carved out a role for myself.

Eric Asimov

#21. Time to read is always time stolen. (Like time to write, for that matter, or time to love).
Stolen from what?
From the tyranny of living.

Daniel Pennac

#22. These things are lost to oblivion like so much about so many who are born and die without anyone taking the time to write it all down. That Litvinoff had a wife who was so devoted is, to be frank, the only reason anyone knows anything about him at all.

Nicole Krauss

#23. Because I've been a full professor doing research and lecturing at the University of California, I didn't have a lot of time to write, so I have always used my unconscious a great deal to do the really heavy lifting.

Gregory Benford

#24. I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.

Cecelia Ahern

#25. Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

#26. Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them. Even the most rushed and pell-mell life begins to take on the patina of being cherished.

Julia Cameron

#27. Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.

Barbara Kingsolver

#28. Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

Robert Hass

#29. I make time to write.

Stanley Tucci

#30. I think a lot of it is that we used to tour so much that we never really had time to write songs.

Mike Lowry

#31. They're just memories now," Chase Buell said sadly. "Time to write them off.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#32. It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.

Dana Spiotta

#33. It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.

Earl Sweatshirt

#34. If you have time to write a business plan, you have time to prove the model. Just sayin.

Richie Norton

#35. To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance
not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write.

Richard Hugo

#36. If Shakespeare had been in pro basketball, he never would have had time to write his soliloquies. He would have always been on a plane between Phoenix and Kansas City.

Paul Westhead

#37. With two kids it's hard to find down time to write so I often write during their nap time.

Tori Spelling

#38. I write long pieces because I don't have time to write short ones..

Trey Jones

#39. If quantum mechanics is how reality structures itself, then the world is far weirder than we think. It is truly a wonderful time to write Science Fiction!

Stavros Halvatzis

#40. Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.

Sharyn McCrumb

#41. If you're doing an hour-long show, you're working movie hours, doing a 12-15-hour day. We work three or four hours a day, and get every third or fourth week off to give the writers time to write. It's the cushiest job in Hollywood.

Eric McCormack

#42. When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.

Jeffery Deaver

#43. My problem is never ideas. I've got more than I'll ever have time to write. It's all about how many I can get to, and which ones readers want to see the most.

Rick Riordan

#44. I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing.

Alice Hoffman

#45. Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself a big clap on the back, followed by a double latte and a blueberry muffin.

Rachel Johnson

#46. Money to a writer is time to write.

Frank Herbert

#47. The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.

Bruce Coville

#48. I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

Mary Archer

#49. Successful people, no matter how busy, seem to make time to write letters.

Mark Demoss

#50. If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy. And then I don't know what I'll do. Get married. Have some kids. Plant a nice vegetable patch.

Adele

#51. Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry,
to love music.

Jeff Buckley

#52. I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.

Winston Churchill

#53. You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job.

Nora Roberts

#54. I'm from Boston, and I get easily overwhelmed in New York, so I go to Boston and stay with my parents for a few months at a time to write, or edit, or just to cry.

Alex Karpovsky

#55. Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music ...

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#56. There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

Barbara Kingsolver

#57. I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

Juliette Binoche

#58. I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#59. I don't know if I have some kind of defiance disorder or something, but if I'm hired to write something by "The Man," or by a studio, for whatever reason, it's really hard for me to finish. I inevitably wind up using that time to write something else.

Diablo Cody

#60. I don't go out much. I'm also not promiscuous. If I went out with everyone the press said I did, I'd never have time to write or sing.

Mariah Carey

#61. Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not have written 'Eragon' if I had gone into a public school system because I would have just been too busy attending classes and doing homework - I wouldn't have had the time to write.

Christopher Paolini

#62. Please read the book slowly because it took me a long time to write.

A.W. Rock

#63. A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don't have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then you can have all the talent in the world, and you aren't going to finish a book.

Nora Roberts

#64. I just can't find the time to write my mind the way I want it to read.

Wilco

#65. I'm thankful to have time to write.

Paul Watson

#66. Are you ready for me to read?" I took her outstretched cup and placed it on the bedside table.
"I was ready ten minutes ago. If you wait any longer I'll have time to write a novel meself.

Jenny B. Jones

#67. My hope is that I hit it big with something, and then I'll have enough of a cushion to carve out time to write a book. That would be my passion project.

Rob Thomas

#68. We have talked long enough ... about civil rights,' Lyndon Johnson had said. 'It is time ... to write it in the books of law' - to embody justice and equality in legislation.

Robert A. Caro

#69. It's time to write our own story.

Misty Copeland

#70. Make time to write every day. The writing muscle is like any other muscle; the more you exercise it, the stronger it becomes.

Judy Penz Sheluk

#71. But who has time to write memoirs? I'm still living my memoirs.

Rebecca Wells

#72. I wanted to write a short letter but I only had time to write a long one....

This is not my quote but I can't remember who said it...anyone know?

Kaye Linden

#73. Whenever it dipped under 80 degrees, it was cause for celebration - time to write home with the news, dig my jacket out of the closet, and try to quell the impulse to sing Christmas carols.

Bryanna Plog

#74. It takes me a very, very long time to write a story, to write a piece of fiction, whatever you call the fiction that I write. I just go about it blindly, feeling my way towards what it has to be.

Deborah Eisenberg

#75. The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.

A. Whitney Brown

#76. It takes a long, long time to write what I do write.

Joseph O'Neill

#77. I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television.

Callie Khouri

#78. I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.

Sam Shepard

#79. I don't have time to write you a short letter, so I'm writing you a long one instead.

Mark Twain

#80. I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.

Margaret Atwood

#81. I'd read a lot of books where the girls are in awe of the supernatural male, so I thought it was time to write about an awesome and super-powerful female who is also quite vulnerable and naive about life on earth.

Alexandra Adornetto

#82. But the commission is now. The time to speak is when the Spirit of God boils the message so hot within you that it must come out. The time to write is when God Almighty presses his thumb against your heart and forces the words out like a steaming geyser.

Eric Ludy

#83. Remember, you're allocating time to write, not finding time to write.

Paul J. Silvia

#84. My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which gives me time to write stupid books about it.

Adam Mansbach

#85. ...I'm not saying simple code takes less time to write. You'd think it would since you end up with less total code, but a good solution isn't an accretion of code, it's a distillation of it.

Robert Nystrom

#86. Whenever one has time to write, edit, and delete, there is room for performance.

Sherry Turkle

#87. They're just memories now. Time to write them off.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#88. I don't have time to write a mom blog, but I'm not against it. I think it's great when women talk about things. I'm all about female empowerment. There's a lot of lonely, lost moms out there. Moms need to be encouraged to tell the truth. There's a lot of glamour mommy stuff. It's OK to get real.

Kelly Cutrone

#89. I've never yet run out of ideas what to write about ... only out of time to write it in.

Rayne Hall

#90. Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.

Deb Caletti

#91. I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know what the answer is as someone who has taught and is now working at a grocery store.

Ali Liebegott

#92. I wanted to badly to be vulnerable over a burger, beer, and bags of free books we find on some stranger's porch. You wanted badly to be touched some thousand miles away and never found the time to write me back.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#93. I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!

Enid Blyton

#94. Grab for time to write instead of wait for time.

Julia Cameron

#95. There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

Amity Gaige

#96. It takes a long time to write a book. I'm not going to spend that much time trying to deliver a message. The reason I do it is because I want to understand something myself. It's not a delivery device, it's an inquiry device. Didactic fiction to my mind never works. It backfires.

Ruth Ozeki

#97. Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond our reach. The best time to write is now, in the present.

M. Kirin

#98. You may well ask me why ... I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

George Bernard Shaw

#99. Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.

Virginia Woolf

#100. If you don't have time to read, then you have more time to write. Simple as that.

Stephen King