Ray Bradbury Quotes

I worked more intensively hour after hour when I was starting out [writing]. More laboriously. I'd say quantity is important as well as quality, and if you're not producing enough, make a schedule and stick to it.

To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.

I'm doing my best whether it's for a hundred-copy print run or for a hundred thousand.

I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.

I am always trying to write.

I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write.

I am not at all in favor of hard work for its own sake; many people who work very hard indeed produce terrible things, and should most certainly not be encouraged.

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.

Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write.

Planning to write is not writing.

Write as well as you can and finish what you start.

If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.

If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.

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.

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

The more you create, the more ambitious you become with your projects. Short films were a direct result of over 200 web series sketches and vlogs. After you create enough 2-minute videos, you start to wonder what else there is. Deadlines and discipline and quantity with a focus on quality have always been what keeps me going.

I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing.

I'm not particularly prolific.

On a good day I write, all day.

Yes, I am very prolific.

There are a ton of qualities that can help you succeed, and the more carefully a quality has been studied, the more you know it's worth your time and energy.

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.