Alan Dean Foster Quotes

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.

Discipline is what makes a writer. If writing was like lifting weights, then I'd look like Mr. Universe. Write every day. Give the Muse a chance to get to know you.

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.

You have to write every day, and you have to write whether you feel like it or not.

For me, the process always has to be pretty intense. I could never write just two or three days a week. It had to be every day.

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

I write every day... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.

Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread.

Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later.

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.

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff.

When I'm writing, I write every day. It's lovely when that's happening. One day dovetailing into the next. Sometimes I don't even know what day of the week it is.

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.

I am always trying to write.

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

I write every day.

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

The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.

Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.

Sit down at ten o'clock in the morning and write anything that comes into my head until twelve. One of the few things I've discovered about writing is to form a habit that becomes an addiction so that if you don't put something down on paper every day, you get really mean and awful with withdrawal symptoms, and your wife and your dog and your kids are going to kick your ass until you get back to it because they can't bear you in that state of mind.

The most common misperception about me is that I write fast. I just write often. Every hour that I can.

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.