Lazy Writers Quotes

Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.

Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.

In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable.

Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.

I like to write short stories more because I never met a writer who wasn't lazy. And a short story is, by its very definition, short. It is something that generally you can turn out in a week to two weeks depending on how well it goes for you. But, at the same time, it gives the same satisfaction of creating a complete world.

I never met a writer who wasn't lazy.

Having judged a few competitions, it's clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers.

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.