C. S. Lewis Quotes

Here is a simple recipe to begin with. Get up every morning with the set intention of writing and go to your desk and sit there for three hours, whether you accomplish anything or not. Before long you will find that you are writing madly, not waiting for inspiration.

Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.

Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with writing, you think you should come out fresh the first time.

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

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.

You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It's really important to start writing young.

Exercise the writing muscle every day.

Always continue to perform no matter what or where the activity is: local theater, regional theater, local clubs or coffee shops. Continue to play the guitar or your instrument and always continue to progress or otherwise you will fail.

I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.

I started writing every day. I never stopped.

Writing is like a sport - you only get better if you practice

A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in the silence and write. If you can have that that's all very well, but the true writer will learn to write anywhere -- even in prison.

I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.

Sometimes I think of blogging as finger exercises for a violinist; sometimes I think of it as mulching a garden. It is incredibly useful and helpful to my "real" writing.

The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work.

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.

It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.

Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any better.

You have to be very productive in order to become excellent. You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre period, and then you move into your excellent period. It may be very well be that some of you have done quite a bit of writing already. You maybe ready to move into your good period and your excellent period. But you shouldn't be surprised if it becomes a very long process.

Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.

You learn to write by doing it.

Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine.

Friends open the door for me to write. Then I get paid attention to and it allows me to write other books. The Great Spring and the thirtieth anniversary of Bones just came out and while I'm happy and excited about that, I've already finished a new book. That's what practice does. You don't get caught.

As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?

I write two pages - that's all I write. It takes me about an hour. I've learned that's all I'm capable of and to push myself beyond that is foolhardy. It's a very delicate thing, and I will not abuse it. So I write two pages, then I get up from the computer.