Paul G. Tremblay Quotes

I have nothing like a writing routine. I sometimes have trouble buckling down to write at home.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work nine to five. If I didn't have deadlines then I might be more of a golden hour kind of guy, writing from eight to noon and calling it a day, but that's just not the way I work right now.

I'm not always as disciplined as I should be. I don't sit down and write every day, but I should.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.

A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad, because that means I have the entire day to get in my way.

Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it.

I have to watch out for being lazy.

If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I'll work 'till exhausted.

I like to get up and get out. Otherwise you end up kicking about, and it's easy to flick the telly on; then before you know it, it is 11 A.M. and you haven't done anything.

I crave deadlines. If I don't have a deadline, I become a total slacker, which is why I always have so much on my plate.

I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a project, though, then I'm addicted to it all day long. When it's done, I collapse and have to really kick myself to start a new one.

I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock.

We go to the office every day when we're writing - or supposed to be writing. It's not always productive, and there's a lot of procrastinating, just staring at the wall, like any other writing. But we just make ourselves go to the office every day for more or less the whole day.

I never talk about work in progress because once I talk about it I don't do it anymore.

I'm not a particularly disciplined person in terms of my work habits.

When writers say that they need to 'set the mood' or 'get into the zone', those are all ways to procrastinate. Not prerequisites.

I love a daily deadline.

Getting to my typewriter is something I push myself to, but once I am working, I work hard.

Every day I'm not working or writing is a wasted day to me.

A lot of people in our generation like to make excuses about little things that really don't hinder them from doing what they want to. It always comes down to the work ethic.