Ayelet Waldman Quotes

Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how you be a writer.

Discipline is what makes a writer. If writing was like lifting weights, then I'd look like Mr. Universe. Write every day. Give the Muse a chance to get to know you.

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

I write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing.

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

Here's the bottom line; writers write. Sometimes words flow easily. Sometimes it's like sloughing through mud. Either way a professional writer keeps writing.

There is no trick to it. If you like to write and want to write, you write, no matter where you are or what else you are doing or whether anyone pays any heed.

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

Don't just plan to write - write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.

A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don't have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then you can have all the talent in the world, and you aren't going to finish a book.

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.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing I'm in the middle of, I do that, but when I'm not, time can go by when I'm not writing at all.

The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.

I really try to write every day. It's hard, but it's my favorite thing to do, so it's usually not too, too hard.

Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.

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

Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.

The only real advice you can give anyone is to keep writing.

At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done.

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

I am always trying to write.

I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.

Just keep writing, and try to finish that novel. Remember, all authors started exactly where you are right now; the only difference between a published author and a non-published one is that the published author never stopped writing.