“I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.”
“I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. ”
“I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.”
“MUSE REBELLE, RENDEZ-VOUS Á LA PREMIÉRE PLUIE (rebel muse, rendezvous at the first rain)”
“I have a rendezvous with death... I will not fail that rendezvous”
“Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.”