Jonathan Maberry Quotes

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

I write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing.

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.

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

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

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

I write every day.

Some writers sit down every day for two or three hours, at least, to write, whether they are in the mood or not. Others wait for inspiration.

I make sure to write every day, even if it's a little bit.

I just write from dawn to dusk.

I make time to write.

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.

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

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

I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.

At readings, audience members sometimes ask if I keep writing past the two hours if I'm on a roll, but I don't. I figure that if I'm on a roll, it's partially because I know I'm about to stop.

I'm a person who, when I set out to write, I write. It's just like when you set out to eat, you eat, or when you set out to sleep, you sleep. I don't do somersaults to write something. I just do it.

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.

People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.

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

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do 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. I do like to write in the morning. I start after breakfast, like 9 o'clock, and I'll write till lunch, about 1. And after lunch, I just have fun.

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.

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