Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed.

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.

If I weren't so lazy, I would have 14 books, not eight.

Sometimes I decide I don't want to write because it isn't the thing for me to be doing right then, and I go do something else.

Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.

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.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I've always been ok at that.

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

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

Successful writers say you should never work from a desk with a view, and the view I have from this one is a huge distraction. There's a garden bursting with fresh vegetation, and just beyond the high wall at the end of it, I can see the sign of the local pub across the road. Distractions, eh? I'm so easily led.

I like to work. I don't like to have lulls. I feel like it makes me lazy and uncreative, and that's when your ideas become stagnant.

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.

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

My writing life is always a bit disorganized. It's hard for me to get going, but sometimes, once I begin, I go like the wind.

I should be writing a poem every morning but I'm not.

A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.

I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.