Arnold J. Toynbee Quotes

I started writing every day. I never stopped.

Write a little bit every day, each day. Visit it, every day - in other words, show up for work.

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you will get rusty.

Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.

For me, the process always has to be pretty intense. I could never write just two or three days a week. It had to be every day.

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.

Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was all it took for me to write my first book. Don't get discouraged if a holiday or illness interrupts your writing habit. Just start it up again.

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

I write every day for most of the work day, and I try to write 2,500 words per day... If I don't make it a routine and treat it like a job, I'd never get anything done.

Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.

If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

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

I write every day.

You have to write every day, and you have to write whether you feel like it or not.

When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At least I do.

There isn't a single day I don't do some writing -- if you don't, you won't have a book. When you're self-employed it is very easy to burn away your time instead -- answering e-mails, surfing the Internet, or hanging out with friends. You really must have the discipline to sit down and write every day. Most of what I am writing is living in the back of my head or in my subconscious. I find if I write every day, my subconscious will do the job for me.

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.

I try to write every day. I don't beat myself up about word counts, or how many hours are ticking by on the clock before I'm allowed to go and do something else. I just try to keep a hand in and work every single day, even if there are other demands or I'm on a book tour or have the flu or something, because then I keep my unconscious engaged with the book. Then I'm always a little bit writing, no matter what else I'm doing.