Octavia E. Butler Quotes

I write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing.

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

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

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.

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

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

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

For me, the optimum circumstances for writing a book are those of stultifying routine.

Some writers sit down every day for two or three hours, at least, to write, whether they are in the mood or not. Others wait for inspiration.

I make sure to write every day, even if it's a little bit.

Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.

If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit at your desk every day. Start with twenty minutes, say, and work up as quickly as possible to as much time as you can spare. Do you really want to write? Sit for two hours a day.

A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

Write a little bit every day, each day. Visit it, every day - in other words, show up for work.

Don't fall into the trap of having to have everything perfect to write or wait until the mood strikes you. If you want it as a job, treat it like a job, and just as you don't go to work only when you feel like it, you have to condition yourself to sit and write even when the ideas don't flow.

I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not. It's a discipline. So that's definitely different. It's part of maturing as a person and as a professional.

I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not. I just did it.

Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.

I write every day.

It's the hardest thing in the world to dedicate to writing, but if you do that even once a week, after six months or a year you'll have something substantial.