"There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one."

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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.

— Geoff Dyer