Barun Sobti Quotes

I am always trying to write.

Don't keep rewriting and polishing something if it isn't setting the world on fire: start something new instead and consider the earlier story a learning experience.

I write all the time and I try to think of ideas all the time.

I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.

They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.

Despite all of our technological advances, content creation still requires time, inspiration, and a certain amount of sweat. There aren't any shortcuts. You can't write an algorithm for it. You can't predict it. You can't code it.

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.

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.

Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.

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

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

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.

I write every day.

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.

I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.

I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.

Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

I don't usually think of my writing as a 'challenge' because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid 'writer's block' all these years.

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

I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books, I have to start a new direction.

You know, I always was an early morning or late night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning you make up some of your most absurd jokes.

'Purple Plumeria' I dithered over for months and then wrote the whole thing between the beginning of July and end of August. The dithering and procrastination time was three times the writing times.

I'm always amazed by writers who say, 'Oh you know I had a half hour so I sat down and wrote a little bit.' I just need a real big chunk of time to sit down and focus. That's my process.

I don't know how I do it, but I've written about everything. I've written about my shoes.

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