Simon Sebag Montefiore
“For writers, wasting time is as vital as working, so it is essential to sit all day without doing anything.”
[excerpt from Simon Sebag Montefiore’s column in British Airways ‘High Life’ magazine, March 2014]
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Read about my writerly wanderings around Wimbledon Common, my haunt while writing Ignoring Gravity, here.
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If you agree with Simon Sebag Montefiore, perhaps you will agree with:-
Deborah McKinlay – the lean years focussed me on what I really wanted
Matthew Thomas – don’t deny the autobiographical
Jeanette Winterson – writing never stops
And if you’d like to tweet a link to THIS post, here’s my suggested tweet:
I agree with Simon Sebag Montefiore: #writers need time & space to think http://wp.me/p5gEM4-RQ via @SandraDanby
Love this. I’m a huge fan of sitting around doing nothing, and now I have the excuse that it’s to make me a better writer, yeah !
I know, wish I could go back to school and tell my teachers that I wasn’t daydreaming but working out a plot! SD
I could certainly become an expert at practicing this! 😉
I am a grade one expert! SD
Exactly, our brains are always busy – even if we appear lazy.
I’m just a dreamer, and sometimes the dreams join up into a plot! SD
I completely agree – we may seem as though we’re doing nothing, but our brains are very busy!
Only a writer would get this, I think! SD
Is this healthy at all I don’t know
I think he just means having the space to think. SD