Upamanyu Chatterjee Quotes

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

I write, I write, I always write.

I don't usually think of my writing as a 'challenge' because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid 'writer's block' all these years.

How can you stop writing?

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.

I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.

I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately, I feel like it all the time. I am writing for hours. I do like to write in the morning. I start after breakfast, like 9 o'clock, and I'll write till lunch, about 1. And after lunch, I just have fun.

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

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.

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

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

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

I love writing but don't get a huge amount of time to do it.

I always have to be writing.

I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it's wonderful.

I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.

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 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.

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 enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

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 correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

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