Philip Roth Quotes

I work just as much as I always worked. And I can't explain the fact that there have been a series of books coming rather regularly out of me. I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of the year you have 365. So the pages accumulate and then I publish the books.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

You get up and, first thing in the morning, you do your 500 words. Do it every day and you’ve got a book in eight or nine months.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

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

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.

I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year.

I write every day.

I often get asked how I write so much. As any writer knows, the answer is to write a lot more than you actually publish.

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.

I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That's so many pages longhand.

I just write all the time! I'm always working. I usually work on several books at once.

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

My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel.

The way I write is this: I write about a thousand words a day, a little bit more. The next morning, I read those thousand words and cursorily edit that. Then I write the next thousand. I do that all the way to the end of the book and then I reread the book quite a few times, editing as go through.

I publish six books a year now, which is very exciting. But it keeps me into my typewriter at all times! Now that my children have grown up, I'm with my typewriter 20 hours a day.

If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.

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 books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

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.

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.

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

I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or two.