“Polly was a writer of many deadlines. There were the ignorable deadlines, the not-to-be-taken-too-seriously deadlines: the deadlines-before-the-deadlines deadlines, and finally, the no-kidding-around deadlines. She set these various dates, she'd told him, to fool herself.”
“A deadline gets a writer's work done done better and faster than any inspiration, if only because inspirations don't always come, but the deadline is always there.”
“The deadline is set and they think I am their pet.”
“The ultimate inspiration is the deadline”
“Goals are dreams with a deadline.”
“A goal is a dream with a deadline”