Seth Godin Quotes

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any better.

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.

I'm the type of person, I cannot waste time.

I never have found out all I want to know about writing and realize I never will.

I was a terrible writer at first.

When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities for granted, although this doesn't mean I always write well.

No one can help you write. No one can teach you how to write.

Writing doesn't come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency, I think - the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.

I learned to write by writing.

Writing is like a sport - you only get better if you practice

You learn to write by doing it.

Learn to write well, or not to write at all.

This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it.

The better the writing, the easier it gets.

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

If somebody asked for the first draft of something I'd written, it'd probably be pretty close to whatever got published. I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more you work on something, certainly, the better it gets. But there's also a pretty clear law of diminishing returns.

I'm trying to learn how to write faster.

If you don't plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.

Make it work

Don't waste time on excuses. Just get it done.

Never, never waste a minute on regret. It's a waste of time.