Sean Lock Quotes

I work very hard at each story, at every sentence.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

I've written since I was 10 years old, so I guess I'm self-taught. I've had some luck along the way, I must admit, and I've worked hard.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

I am always trying to write.

Ultimately, the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing, no amount of serialization or free downloads is going to matter. You have to write something worth reading, and often it takes time to get at that level.

It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.

The only way to learn writing is by writing. Talent, as charming as it sounds, amounts to no more than 12 per cent of the process. Work is 80 per cent. The remaining 8 per cent is 'luck' or 'zeitgeist' - in short, things that are not in our hands.

I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.

As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.

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

You won't make a living writing until you learn to write when you don't want to.

I thought I could write. So it was my intention to start off as a writer. But I wasn't really great at delivering the word at the end of the day.

There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.

Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.

I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

The most important lesson my parents taught me is that writing is a job, one that requires discipline and commitment. Most of the time it's a fun job, a wonderful job, but sometimes it isn't, and those are the days that test you.

I'd like to meet fewer people who say 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 10 pages I've written,' and more 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 300 pages I've written.'

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation.

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.

After so many years, I don't really think writing has to be absolutely new. No. It has to be good work.

I just write from dawn to dusk.

I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.