“I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison.”
― Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings
― Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings
“Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
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“I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.”
― Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
― Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
“As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly.”
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“Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.”
― The Secret of Getting Started: Strategies to Triumph over Procrastination
― The Secret of Getting Started: Strategies to Triumph over Procrastination
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