Antony Beevor Quotes

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

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

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

Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

I write, I write, I always write.

And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.

I have a writing addiction.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

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

Read as much as possible, especially the work of writers who most deeply affect you. Make those writers your family. Never wait for inspiration to strike before getting to work; be disciplined and form the habit of writing every day.

A writer has to write something that they're - sit down with or are interested in every day of their life.

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 would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

I wanted to write.

My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

I write - and then I write some more.

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

I'm not one of those true writers who can't bear not to be writing. Yet it's one of the most important things in my life.

The only real advice you can give anyone is to keep writing.