Ben Fountain Quotes

Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

I just write from dawn to dusk.

People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.

For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to it.

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.

I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

I am always trying to write.

I write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing.

Some writers sit down every day for two or three hours, at least, to write, whether they are in the mood or not. Others wait for inspiration.

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.

I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing I'm in the middle of, I do that, but when I'm not, time can go by when I'm not writing at all.

I make time to write.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately, I feel like it all the time. I am writing for hours. I do like to write in the morning. I start after breakfast, like 9 o'clock, and I'll write till lunch, about 1. And after lunch, I just have fun.

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

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 write every day.

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, 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.

You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.