Bernard Malamud: Make Time

The trick is to make time not to steal it.

- Bernard Malamud

I found this quote today. I googled it and found the original source. The Paris Review.

You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter. If he or she is not disciplined, no sympathetic magic will help. The trick is to make time—not steal it—and produce the fiction. If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.

-Bernard Malamud, Paris Review