Billie Eilish Quotes

Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I don't think it's good to become so dependent on a certain writing process.

I don't want to be totally repetitive and doing the same thing over and over again for the rest of my life. I don't want to do that at all.

I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

I always have the impression that I write the same book.

For me, the optimum circumstances for writing a book are those of stultifying routine.

Anyone can sit down and write two pages of a novel, then forget about it, and a week later write five pages of a screenplay, then forget about it, and a week later start another novel... etc, etc.

You don't want to get into doing the same thing, over and over again. I know I don't.

Monotony reveals our limitations.

I don't consciously think of any certain direction when I'm writing. I only try not to be repetitive or redundant.

I really need so much time to really make headway on a novel that requires me to disappear from the world in a way.

I'm not good at doing the same thing over and over again.

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.

Read as much as possible, especially the work of writers who most deeply affect you. Make those writers your family. Never wait for inspiration to strike before getting to work; be disciplined and form the habit of writing every day.

Part of being a writer is just getting it in your bones, getting the muscle memory down, just doing it.

I used to write fiction, non-fiction, fiction, non-fiction and have a clear pattern because I'd need a break from one style when going into the next book.

Every day for me is the same.

I don't want to sound like a broken record but I do tire of the reality TV thing.

I just write from dawn to dusk.

I'm a workaday writer.

If I do the same thing each year, that feels like I am sat on a shelf, and mentally that wouldn't be wise.

The space where writing happens is a unique space that's hard to define, and when you're kicked out of it because you're travelling or distracted, it seems so elusive and hard to defend because you yourself doubt whether it existed.

I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it.

A writer has to write something that they're - sit down with or are interested in every day of their life.