James Acaster Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

I just write from dawn to dusk.

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.

You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.

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

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

I write every day.

You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.

I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books.

I'm a workmanlike writer. I show up every day and treat it like a job. The old rule that writing is like any other job, the first rule is that you must show up. I'm at the keyboard from 9 to 4 every day.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote.

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.

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.

I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday.

You won't make a living writing until you learn to write when you don't want to.

You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job.

When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

I write every day. Most weekdays, I write about ten hours a day. That doesn't mean eight hours of surfing the Net or watching videos on YouTube. I park my butt in a chair and write... I learned that writer's block is a myth created by people who don't have, or understand, a writing process.

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.