Peter V. Brett Quotes

I don't have any writing routine. Sometimes I go to my local coffee shop and I write there for some hours. Apart from that, I am traveling most of the time. I write in airports, trains, hotel rooms... I can write anywhere.

I don't write all the time. But if I'm writing something, I'll just bang into it every day until it's finished. I write pretty quickly.

I kind of like to write fast. It keeps the pacing up. And it keeps me off the streets.

Generally, my notes and outlines comprise more words than my novels. I suppose that's one reason I'm a comparatively slow writer, something that has always bothered me given the fact that other authors can turn out a book every six months while I usually take about two years.

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.

I really try to write every day. It's hard, but it's my favorite thing to do, so it's usually not too, too hard.

I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged two and a half books a year.

Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.

If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising and taking a comma out and putting it back in.

I write about whatever turns up. Every single day, I'm sitting down for three to five hours in the evenings wrestling away and producing far too much verse.

I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.

I write a thousand words a day.

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

I write all the time, even if it means recording in the hotel room. I write on the plane, anywhere, anytime I'm inspired or have ideas.

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.

With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult if I'm not sure where the story is going.

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.

Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

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 write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.

When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.