Terry Pratchett Quotes

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.

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

I write every day... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.

I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.

I don't deal with writer's block, I don't allow myself to believe that there is such a thing. I think that there are good days and a lot more less good days.

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

I am a highly disciplined person. I get up at seven every morning and, still in my pajamas, sit down at my desk where my checkered ring binders and my fountain pen are ready for use. I try to write two pages every day.

Sit down at ten o'clock in the morning and write anything that comes into my head until twelve. One of the few things I've discovered about writing is to form a habit that becomes an addiction so that if you don't put something down on paper every day, you get really mean and awful with withdrawal symptoms, and your wife and your dog and your kids are going to kick your ass until you get back to it because they can't bear you in that state of mind.

The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.

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.

Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.

I don't wait for inspiration. I get up and write every day.

I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.

You have to keep writing. It's almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first of all it makes you slightly depressed and uneasy, but it also affects the style when you start up again. You need to get the show on the road.

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

When I'm writing, I write every day. It's lovely when that's happening. One day dovetailing into the next. Sometimes I don't even know what day of the week it is.

One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

I write every day.

At readings, audience members sometimes ask if I keep writing past the two hours if I'm on a roll, but I don't. I figure that if I'm on a roll, it's partially because I know I'm about to stop.

I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.

I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a project, though, then I'm addicted to it all day long. When it's done, I collapse and have to really kick myself to start a new one.