Mary Chapin Carpenter Quotes

I started writing every day. I never stopped.

Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.

I try to write every day. I don't beat myself up about word counts, or how many hours are ticking by on the clock before I'm allowed to go and do something else. I just try to keep a hand in and work every single day, even if there are other demands or I'm on a book tour or have the flu or something, because then I keep my unconscious engaged with the book. Then I'm always a little bit writing, no matter what else I'm doing.

For me, the process always has to be pretty intense. I could never write just two or three days a week. It had to be every day.

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you will get rusty.

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning.

I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.

Write regularly, day in and day out, at whatever times of day you find that you write best. Don't wait till you feel that you are in the mood. Write, whether you are feeling inclined to write or not.

I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

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.

Discipline is what makes a writer. If writing was like lifting weights, then I'd look like Mr. Universe. Write every day. Give the Muse a chance to get to know you.

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 wait for inspiration. I get up and write every day.

Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.

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

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.

I write every night.

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.

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

I write every day.

I used to be a pre-industrial writer: thousands of words in a spurt and then a few days off. But as I get older, I've switched to a mode best described as 'slow and steady wins the race.' Basically, I write during the same four hours every day, after breakfast and the all-important coffee, generally in the same room and wearing the same pajamas.

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

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

Here's the bottom line; writers write. Sometimes words flow easily. Sometimes it's like sloughing through mud. Either way a professional writer keeps writing.

Best thing is to get the words down every day. And it is time to start now.