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It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish any kind of routine, thought I couldn't put a finger on an exact date, and this routine relates simply to the aphorism 'How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.'

— Neal Asher

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✓Similar Perspectives

For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the table, to have my work out there. Now I must write a book every two years, and that's never enough time, either.

— Jan Karon

I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems.

— Shia LaBeouf

In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage.

— Ingrid Betancourt

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

— Og Mandino

When I made the decision to really get serious about my writing, I set myself a goal of 1,000 words a day for seven days. If I got to 7,000 words before Monday I could take a day off, but I had to get there. I had to do that every week.

— Peter V. Brett

I'm freakishly competitive, so I set a date to achieve a certain weight or fitness.

— Jamie Bamber

I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.

— Ira Glass

I think I wrote my first piece about food in 1978.

— Ruth Reichl

✗Opposing Perspectives

If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.

— Margaret Atwood

I'm kind of like a middle mix between a warrior diet and a Paleo diet, so I only eat once a day and it's at night - so kind of like interval fasting. But I eat until I'm full, I eat as much as I want, and I really don't eat anything that you couldn't find, you know, 10,000 years ago.

— Ronda Rousey