Graham Moore Quotes

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.

I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.

I always believe someone somewhere is working harder than me and that motivates me to work harder, give 100%.

I love to write just about more than anything, but there are times I have to force myself to sit down and work. I want to play with my daughter or watch a movie with my husband or go outside on the nicest day of the year. But if writing is going to be your job, you have to treat it like a job.

I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock.

Without pressure, I'm not going to wake up every day to go work, or do extra shooting, or lifting.

Writing, for me at least, takes a lot of concentrated work and effort. It takes dedication and the willingness to do the work even when that feeling of inspiration isn't there at all.

If you don't want to practice, unless you have a hard-nosed coach, you don't have to.

Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

From the very start of my career, it was clear to me that achievement was built on discipline.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.

I have so much respect for athletes like LeBron James. I get motivation from them because I know how many hours they put into it. It takes a lot of hard work and drive.

Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.

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.

I can handle a lot of work. I've always been able to. I'm a very focused individual. I come to my studio at about 7:30 in the morning and exit almost 5:00 P.M. In that time, those eight or nine hours, it's kind of laser focus on whatever I'm working on. There aren't really any distractions or anything.

If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself, Now, every day for 90 days you have to write a song; good, bad or indifferent. So that was really helpful.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

Don't fall into the trap of having to have everything perfect to write or wait until the mood strikes you. If you want it as a job, treat it like a job, and just as you don't go to work only when you feel like it, you have to condition yourself to sit and write even when the ideas don't flow.

I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.

I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not. It's a discipline. So that's definitely different. It's part of maturing as a person and as a professional.

I learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle class background - the Irish work ethic, which isn't quite the same as the Protestant work ethic - but still, it's, 'Get a job and show up every day. Be there. And don't complain. Who do you think you are: you're nobody special; go to work.'

The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.