Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

I write slowly and get distracted a lot.

My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.

With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.

I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one eye on the mirror to see how you're doing, you're not doing it as well as you can. Don't think about publishing, don't think about editors, don't think about marketplace.

I think I'm really good at forgetting about golf when I'm off the golf course.

I don't mind being distracted. I don't want to sit there in utter silence and type. If the phone rings, I usually answer it, speak for a few minutes and return to writing, or go for a walk in and out of the rooms. I don't mind a break.

The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

When I usually go to my studio to work, I start with something that is going to take two minutes just to put some idea down and the next thing I know, ten hours have gone by and my family is screaming at me because they want me to come up to have dinner with them.

When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might think.

A lot of actors, they know the camera's there, and if somebody moves around or makes noise or whatever then they get all distracted, but I pretty much lock in. You can't distract me too much.

Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

When you start thinking it is a party instead of putting your suit and tie on and getting your job done and handling your business, you are thinking about the wrong thing.

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you'll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money.

Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment.

Like Ron Lorman's always sayin', "Na-na-na-na-na," you know what I mean? I don't need that in the studio.

Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.

You can't live and write at the same time.

You get depressed because you're like, 'Everybody's working and I'm here sitting.' I feel for all gymnasts who get hurt. Injuries are just awful, but at least I had 'Bones' to work on when I wasn't training. It got my mind off the fact that I couldn't do anything.

The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.

Everything you think of that keeps you occupied is a friend.

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.

If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.