Writing Fatigue Quotes

After three straight years of writing, though, I definitely needed a break to just go live my life.

After I wrote my memoir, 'A Long Way Gone,' I was a bit exhausted. I didn't want to write another memoir; I felt that it might not be sane for one to speak about himself for many, many, many years in a row. At the same time, I felt the story of 'Radiance of Tomorrow' pulling at me because of the first book.

If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year.

I sometimes think I cannot write another passage about a disappointing meal ever again, because I've done it so many times.

In general, each form is a relief from the other forms. I can't write a novel after a novel. I just use up all the material each time, and I need to rest.

After opening my first restaurant in 1969, one of the regular customers suggested I write a cookbook, so I did. Then another. After my 12th one, I started to feel stale.

I'm done with books for a while. They take a lot of time, and they take a lot out of you. Maybe I'll write another in the future when my hair starts turning white and I'm, like, that Gandalf-looking dude with white dreads and a white beard.

After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.

I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.

A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.

I'm never doing a long novel again, truly.

I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to be hard to write all day and then come home and write fiction.

Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk.

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

I have written, and I do write, but the truth is I don't love it. I can't stand the process!

Lord, how tired one gets of one's own writing.

When I use the word 'buzz' in successive sentences, it's clearly time for me to stop writing.

I don't keep a diary or a journal. Sometimes I'll send emails to friends and that's a way of recording what I was thinking at any given time. But I've never been a journal keeper. I feel like part of that is because I'm always on deadline. I've been a freelancer my entire career and, at any given time, I have several deadlines for all sorts of things whether it's some magazine piece or ad copywriting or anything. Obviously, people with deadlines keep journals all the time but, for me, the idea of doing more writing is never appealing. It's why I never blog.

I actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived it and there's nothing new to discover. So, I'm unlikely to write a memoir.

When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have less and less to write about.

Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.

I love drafting like I love eating ice cream or having sex; I love revising like I love doing logic puzzles; I love line-editing like I love perfectly organizing a bookshelf; I hate reviewing copyedits and the second round of proofreading because, by then, I'm getting pretty tired of my own words. They all have their own challenges, though.

I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.

With drawing, I am acutely aware of creating something on a sheet of paper. It is a sensual act, which you cannot say about the act of writing. In fact, I often turn to drawing to recover from the writing.