Tom Araya Quotes

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

I can't envisage stopping writing.

I write - and then I write some more.

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 always have to be writing.

How can you stop writing?

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

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.

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.

I wanted to write.

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

I'm not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine.

I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.

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

I am always trying to write.

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.

And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.

I have a writing addiction.

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.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

I think I write and publish as often as I do because I can't bear being without a book to work on... I don't feel I have this to say or that to say or this story to tell, but I know I want to be occupied with the writing process while I'm living.

I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it's wonderful.

Any day in which I get writing done is ideal to me.

I like to write. Prolific is part of who I am.