Shannon Lee Quotes

Write every day. You don't have to write about anything specific, but you should exercise your writing muscle constantly.

I've always been a very prolific writer.

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.

Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.

If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.

I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or two.

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.

Writing - not being a writer with interesting habits - gets priority.

I write every night.

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.

I write every day.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

I do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style.

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

I'm always fascinated by how different writers' rooms work.

I'm pretty much writing all the time.

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

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.

I always write the same way. I always write with a yellow pad and a ballpoint pen on my bed. And then I go and type it up afterwards. I've always done that. Those things become habitual.

My writing regimen is not very regimented. I tend to be a binge writer, working sometimes in the morning and sometimes all night. When I get going I like to hunch over the keyboard until I feel totally played out.

If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.