From the LA Times: The Truth About Writers.
But we writers have a secret.
We don’t spend much time writing.
There. It’s out. Writers, by and large, do not do a great deal of writing. We may devote a large number of hours per day to writing, yes, but very little of that time is spent typing the words of a poem, essay or story into a computer or scribbling them onto a piece of paper.
In my own experience as a writer, I’ve found that this is more true of people who don’t work on deadline – word to the wise!