Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Quotes

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.

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

When I'm writing, I write every day. It's lovely when that's happening. One day dovetailing into the next. Sometimes I don't even know what day of the week it is.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

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

I just write from dawn to dusk.

The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.

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.

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

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

I guess I write four or five hours a day, but I do it seven days a week. It's very disciplined, yes, but it's joy for me.

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.

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.

What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.

Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later.

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

Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.

I write a thousand words a day.

It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm going to work for four to six hours a day. There's no magic writing fairy. It's just hard work.

When I start a book, I write a minimum of five pages every day, except weekends. If I'm going on a ski trip, I take my computer with me, get up at six, do my five pages, and then go skiing.

I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year.

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.

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

I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.