Walter Jon Williams Quotes

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.

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

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

I'm not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine.

The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task.

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.

I write every day.

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.

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

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.

I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote.

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.

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.

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.

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.

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

I write every day. Most weekdays, I write about ten hours a day. That doesn't mean eight hours of surfing the Net or watching videos on YouTube. I park my butt in a chair and write... I learned that writer's block is a myth created by people who don't have, or understand, a writing process.

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

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 can't write every day. I have to skip a day in between. If I try to do it every day, nothing comes.

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

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

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

My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't.