“A writer wastes nothing.”

“We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.”

Joshua Ferris (1974) American author

“You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.”

Grace Paley (1922–2007) American writer and activist

“Nothing, absolutely nothing that can be tackled by the human digestive system is wasted in Naples.”

Norman Lewis book Naples '44

“4934. There is nothing more precious than Time, and nothing more prodigally wasted.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

“Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.”

Thomas Szasz (1920–2012) Hungarian psychiatrist

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”

Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) French sculptor

“Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; waste nothing.”

Thomas Jackson (1824–1863) Confederate general

“Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.”

Philip Roth (1933–2018) American novelist

“There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.”

Charles Bukowski book Hot Water Music