Alice Hoffman Quotes

When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.

You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job.

Leaders understand that the real fight is the fight against time. There's so much to achieve in such less time.

With my responsibilities comes having to manage my time more efficiently.

I write four books a year. I'm very fortunate that I write quickly; around 3,500 words a day. Being strict about delineating my writing time and personal life, as well as keeping distractions at bay, is the only way I can accomplish this.

I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section.

The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making.

You only have so much time in a day.

Of the 60 movies I wrote, more than half were written in two weeks or less.

I'm all about time management. I have gotten my makeup prep in the morning down to, like, four minutes. There's just not enough time in the day.

We have limited time, and we have to maximize it.

I kind of like to write fast. It keeps the pacing up. And it keeps me off the streets.

The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing I'm in the middle of, I do that, but when I'm not, time can go by when I'm not writing at all.

I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.

No, my entire life is planned. It's called time management.

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.

The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.