Anita Desai Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised.

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.

It's the hardest thing in the world to dedicate to writing, but if you do that even once a week, after six months or a year you'll have something substantial.

I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.

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

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.

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.

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.

Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that.

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.

There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.

I start writing at 7.30 A.M. and write till noon. I've never written a single word after 5.00 P.M.

I write every day.

The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.

He said you should write about 75 lines every day. You know, Pound was a great one for laying down the law about how you did anything.

If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.

I'm an everyday guy - I'm a try-to-write-at-least-15-minutes-every-day-if-not-an-hour-or-two kind of guy. I write in Google docs so that wherever you go, you have access to it.

I'm pretty much writing all the time.

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