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Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.

— Haruki Murakami

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I was an athlete, so I have kind of an athletic sensibility towards writing. I can work for many long hours without fatiguing.

— Kay Cannon

At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done.

— Tracy Kidder

I don't have as tight a time limit anymore but I still write in long marathon sessions and then I won't write for a while, I'm not a write-every-day writer.

— Erin Morgenstern

I don't have any writing routine. Sometimes I go to my local coffee shop and I write there for some hours. Apart from that, I am traveling most of the time. I write in airports, trains, hotel rooms... I can write anywhere.

— Jo Nesbo

I mostly write on my own, walking, outside.

— Bjork

Writing is a lot of fun for me; that's not to say it's easy, but I really do enjoy it.

— Donald Driver

I'm not a believer that you have to write every day. If I felt industrious, I'd spend ten hours a week writing. The writing is going on all the time in my head; the trick is to capture it. Showers are great. Traffic jams are great.

— Julia Glass

✗Opposing Perspectives

I write about two hours a day, and I write in fits and spurts - 45 minutes here, a half-hour there - and when I get stuck, which happens often, I take the dogs for a walk. But during the time when I'm not actually writing, I'm thinking.

— Ellen Potter

I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk. I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I don't go running or hard hiking.

— Maria Semple

It's the hardest thing in the world to dedicate to writing, but if you do that even once a week, after six months or a year you'll have something substantial.

— Lauren Weisberger