Raphael Bob-Waksberg Quotes

I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.

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

I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.

When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.

My secret is simple. I have a very short attention span, and writing lots of things fast appeases that very attention span.

I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

I go up to my office and sit down in front of my computer and turn on the internet and then I don't work - that's the end of work for the day.

I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.

I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.

I do occasionally get into that 'checking Twitter every five minutes' state - 'Please, help me avoid my work.' I have a writing room for when I get completely out of control, so I can put myself out of the Internet's reach.

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.

I have no organisational skills. All my energy goes into worry - worrying takes a lot of energy.

I'm a terrible procrastinator.

I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you've got three weeks, and so on.

When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can't. I find it distracting. Even when the music is just instrumental or has lyrics in a language I don't understand, the clash between the voices in my head and the song can be very disorienting.

I should be concentrating on writing pages.

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.

When I try to concentrate, I really enjoy writing.

It's hard to edit. It's hard to stay focused. And yet, we know we'll only do our best work if we stay focused. And so, you know, the hardest decisions we made are all the things not to work on, frankly.

When I work on stories, I tend to lose sight of everything else. I forget to pay bills or to shave. I don't change my clothes as often as I should.

There's no writer's block; there's only distraction.