Toby Keith Quotes

I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them.

Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.

I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged two and a half books a year.

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.

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.

Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages.

I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.

I write a thousand words a day.

Can you write 200 words a day? 100? 50? In six months, 50 words a day is 9,000 words. That's 2-3 short stories. If you did 200 words every day, in three months that's 36,000 words. That's half a short novel.

The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

I remain convinced that the most valuable use of time for a newly published author is to write a second book that's even better than the first, and a third that's better than the second, and on and on.

Write a million words before thinking about getting published.

I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.

I think if you write for long enough, you eventually have a problem with everything, because you start figuring out where you could be doing better. But as far back as I can trace, I always wrote clear, grammatical prose.

Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to be more efficient, but I am not.

I've only had four ideas for a novel in my life, and I've written all of them.

In 2007, I probably wrote four screenplays in the entire year. Every three months I was writing a screenplay.

I didn't write a ton before 'After,' to be honest.

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.

As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.

The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

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

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