Will Self Quotes

My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.

The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making.

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

People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really just want to know what the magic formula is for writing. I inevitably disappoint them by saying you just put your butt in the chair, and you write 500 words a day, and then you get up and repeat it the next morning.

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'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.

I write a thousand words a day.

I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year.

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

I'm not the most talented writer in the world. I know that. But I also know that I'm disciplined, that I work my butt off, and that I make myself write as much as I can. Writer's block is a luxury I can't afford. I'm a professional writer, which means that I put my butt in the chair each day, and I write. Simple as that.

A writer needs to write, period. He or she can't wait for the muse, shouldn't need peace and quiet, and isn't entitled to perfect conditions or the perfect spot.

Every day I write. I am not waiting for a great idea from heaven.

I'm always working on my next novel, even when I'm not.

I just write from dawn to dusk.

During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revising, or researching anywhere from four to six hours.

I'm a workmanlike writer. I show up every day and treat it like a job. The old rule that writing is like any other job, the first rule is that you must show up. I'm at the keyboard from 9 to 4 every day.

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

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.

People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.

I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.

I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday.

I really try to write every day. It's hard, but it's my favorite thing to do, so it's usually not too, too hard.

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.