Amy Wallace
American writer
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
My most important discovery has been that I have optimum hours for writing. These are between 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM. For a lifetime I've told myself that I was a nighttime writer — it seemed romantic. But actually I'm tired at night, and that's when I prefer to read and research. Whatever your optimum hours are, don't cheat yourself of them. This is a daily battle. If you spend them answering the phone, attending to correspondence, etc., you'll find yourself empty-handed and out of sorts during your low tide.
—Amy Wallace, American writer, quoted in Advice to Writers, Jon Winokur ed., 1999
Posted on April 13, 2004 at 9:48 AM
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