Writing Avoidance Quotes

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing.

I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other than going to your desk and writing, when every closet is reorganized and you've called your oldest living relative twice in one day to see what she's up to and there isn't an unanswered e-mail left on your computer or you simply can't bear to answer another one and there is no dignity, not a drop left, in any further evasion of the task at hand, namely writing, well, you can always ask your dentist for a root canal or have an accident in the bathtub instead.

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

When I'm writing, I don't read much crime at all - you don't want to get distracted by other people's plots.

I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.

I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.

If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.

I'm so terrified to write that I don't type at all.

Once, my writing-avoidance behavior involved me mixing up a cleaning concoction and getting some ancient stains out of the carpet. My wife liked that one.

I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.

I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself.

I'm quite good at not writing.

There must be times when everybody writes when they feel they're evading writing.

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.