Louise Penny Quotes

I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a project, though, then I'm addicted to it all day long. When it's done, I collapse and have to really kick myself to start a new one.

I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.

Getting to my typewriter is something I push myself to, but once I am working, I work hard.

I have nothing like a writing routine. I sometimes have trouble buckling down to write at home.

The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

I'm not always as disciplined as I should be. I don't sit down and write every day, but I should.

It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.

You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.

I think I'm less disciplined than a lot of other people, I'm afraid, but on the other hand, I've written a lot of books.

You have to write every day, and you have to write whether you feel like it or not.

I just write from dawn to dusk.

My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

When I sit down at the typewriter, I write. Someone once asked me if I had a fixed routine before I start, like setting up exercises, sharpening pencils, or having a drink of orange juice. I said, "No, the only thing I do before I start writing is to make sure that I'm close enough to the typewriter to reach the keys."

To say, "Well, I write when I really get into it" is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter, stare at it a long time, get snowblindness if you have to, but write something.

When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling around.

I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing I'm in the middle of, I do that, but when I'm not, time can go by when I'm not writing at all.

I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.

I write about two hours a day, and I write in fits and spurts - 45 minutes here, a half-hour there - and when I get stuck, which happens often, I take the dogs for a walk. But during the time when I'm not actually writing, I'm thinking.

You won't make a living writing until you learn to write when you don't want to.

For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to it.

I make time to write.

On a good day I write, all day.

To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I have great discipline when I write - but only for about ten minutes.

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.