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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.

I'd rather see a writer write 15 minutes a day than save it all up for a Saturday. A work gets a coating on it when it's not been worked on for a while, makes it hard to break back in.

I think writing is a part-time career, because otherwise you get a little stale, maybe even self-indulgent, when you have to fill the hours with sentences. I don't think, if I wrote 12 hours a day, my work would be much better.

Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond price.

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

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.

When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.

I'm not the kind of writer that can write eight hours a day... I'm the kind of writer that the more time I have, the less efficient I am.

Yes. I am writing full-time. Which is strange. It feels like not having a job.

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