“I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Source: Drums of Autumn
“I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“Contingency time is useless wasted time, right until you need it.”
Source: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 8, “A Game of Vampires” (p. 236)
“To teach fools like you to stop wasting their time worshiping Masters.”
Source: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 127
Context: A disciple, in his reverence for the Master, looked upon him as God incarnate.
"Tell me, O Master," he said, "why you have come into this world."
"To teach fools like you to stop wasting their time worshiping Masters."
Source: Knowledge@Wharton https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/the-righteous-mind-why-liberals-and-conservatives-cant-get-along/ (2013)
“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
From Marthe Troly-Curtin's Phrynette Married (1912). Misattributed to Bertrand Russell due to an ambiguous entry in Laurence J. Peter's Peter’s Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/11/time-you-enjoy/
Misattributed