Dilip Shanghvi Quotes

The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days.

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

Sometimes, I seem to be only able to actually move and get going with things on the razor edge of possibly still managing whatever it is I'm supposed to do. I think, secretly, I might even get a buzz out of it. Maybe I crave the adrenalin like some sort of crazy gambler high on risking everything on the turn of a card.

I still have this habit, I guess, continued from college, where I procrastinate up until the last moment.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.

I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

Time is my greatest enemy.

For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

I hate last-minute shopping, it's always unsuccessful.

When I have time, I'll be a good girl and do my chores.

I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.

There's a certain gravity in Stokes, due to the situations I have to handle.

We have time, there's no big rush.

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

It's going to be over soon, so I don't really have time to get busy.

I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited time, you rush to the page trying to get something down in the little bit of fragment of time that you have, and you may write a great deal that way.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.