For the truth there is no deadline.
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?
Inspiration is for amateurs. professionals work everyday. Personally the best inspiration is a deadline.
Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.
Like all writers, my greatest inspiration, my ultimate muse, is a deadline.
Whatever you cut when there's no deadline isn't really a cut. You're just pushing colors around.
My publisher is generous with deadlines, which are never set in stone. Some writers need that pressure, but I am more productive when there's less panic.
I would never finish a painting if I didnt have a deadline.
Hollywood's always saying, "Yesterday!" and scares you to death with all that deadline and yelling and impatience stuff.
It was always a pleasure to write. I can never think of a time when I just hacked something out to fulfil a contract or meet a deadline. I might have hacked things out, but it was always stuff I loved.
I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.
I have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist].
I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.
Give yourself a deadline to stop planning and to start taking action.
For truth there is no deadline.
I've never met a deadline I couldn't miss. I make sure my editors know this.
We remind ourselves that it's a hobby [The Esemblist]; nobody is setting these deadlines for us, except us.
You've got a deadline. Well, I do, too: death.
Deadlines and things make you creative.
