Authors:
  • Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I ­always have to feel that I'm bunking off from something.

    "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Geoff Dyer, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.