Writing Every Day Quotes

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.

I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I’m not always writing every day. I needed a contact with different things, like nature, for example. I cannot be in front of a computer trying to tell a story.

Writing is not a genteel profession. It’s quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

Exercise the writing muscle every day.

You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.

You know, there are those writers who work at writing every day. I’m not one of those guys. I tend to work at varying levels of intensity, based on the amount of time and energy I have available.

You must write every single day of your life… You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads… may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.

I started writing every day. I never stopped.

I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.

I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn’t have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private – a comforting thought.

Writing every day across nine time zones because Gillian [Grassie] was in Berlin, and we were working together via Skype. It was pretty intense. I’m really happy with how it turned out.