Morgan Wallen Quotes

At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you'd crumple up your pages and toss them away. On one side, the dustbin would fill up, and on the other side, pages would rise into a novel.

Write a million words before thinking about getting published.

I wrote 'Legends of the Fall' in nine days, but I had been thinking about it for a few years.

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

Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.

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.

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

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

If you try to write 1,000 words a day, as I do, after 100 days you'll look up and have a book. It may be a mess, and you may have to revise it 50 times, but you can't revise it if you haven't written it.

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

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.

The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.

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

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't go too wrong.

Sixteen years as a freelance features journalist taught me that neither the absence of 'the Muse' nor the presence of 'the block' should be allowed to hinder the orderly progress of a book.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

The first story I wrote was called 'Days,' and I have very little affection for it.

I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.