Jonathan Lethem Quotes

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

I started writing every day. I never stopped.

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.

The secret to writing is writing. Lots of people I know talk about writing. They will tell me about the book they are going to write, or are thinking about writing, or may write some day in the future. And I know they will never do it. If someone is serious about writing, then they will sit down every day and put some words down on paper.

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.

I like to feel that every day or most days, I do a little bit of writing. I am a creature of habit in terms of the way I live.

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.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

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.

Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later.

You have to keep writing. It's almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first of all it makes you slightly depressed and uneasy, but it also affects the style when you start up again. You need to get the show on the road.

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 day.

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.

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.

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and is it is cool and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit again.

Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

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.

The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.

Don't just plan to write - write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.

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.

I write every night.