Uzodinma Iweala Quotes

If you wish to be a writer, write.

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

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.

I write constantly about everything.

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

I worked with several writers at the University of Michigan: Nicholas Delbanco, Peter Ho Davies, Eileen Pollack, Laura Kasischke, and Thomas Lynch, who told me the same thing over and over again: Persist. Read, write, and improve: tell your stories.

I like to write. Prolific is part of who I am.

My method is, I just sit down and write a book.

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.

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

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

Get your butt in a chair and write. If it comes out weak or bad or clunky or ordinary, then accept that this happens to everyone. Everyone. Get it down, get it done, and fix it in the rewrite. Just like everyone from Stephen King to J. K. Rowling to Chuck Palahniuk does.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

I am always trying to write.

Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.

I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write.

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'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.

I love to stay at home and write.

I spend 99 percent of my time writing.