Fran Lebowitz Quotes

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.

The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time.

It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.

I am most drawn to writing when I have something else urgent to do.

I know what it’s like to be distracted. To seek out distractions. To exhaust yourself doing every other little thing rather than face a blank page

I procrastinate, and I push writing to the last available moment, because I don't like to settle on anything. I guess you can call it indecision or you can call it holding out for inspiration.

I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing.

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.

One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

I'm so good at procrastinating.

If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.

I've always been a procrastinator.

I can procrastinate a little bit.

I'm the kind of person who will set time aside to do something and then do everything but that thing.

Procrastination is not the problem. It is the solution. Procrastinate now, don’t put it off.

Procrastination is still the thief of time.

All we have is here and now. That's why procrastination feels so right. Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution.

It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.

I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.

If you feel the urge to write, just lie down and read a book: it will pass.

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.

I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wanted—otherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.

Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up...