Excuses

Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin -- the desk's too big, the desk's too small, there's too much noise, there's too much quiet, it's too hot, it's too cold, too early, too late.  I had learned over the years to ignore them all and simply to start.

-- Robert Dennis Harris (7 March 1957 -), English novelist, The Ghost (2007)