Khaled Hosseini 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.

I write every day.

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

Every day I write. I am not waiting for a great idea from heaven.

I just write from dawn to dusk.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

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

My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.

I'm not the most talented writer in the world. I know that. But I also know that I'm disciplined, that I work my butt off, and that I make myself write as much as I can. Writer's block is a luxury I can't afford. I'm a professional writer, which means that I put my butt in the chair each day, and I write. Simple as that.

I started writing every day. I never stopped.

I'm a workmanlike writer. I show up every day and treat it like a job. The old rule that writing is like any other job, the first rule is that you must show up. I'm at the keyboard from 9 to 4 every 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.

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.

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

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 write every day. Most weekdays, I write about ten hours a day. That doesn't mean eight hours of surfing the Net or watching videos on YouTube. I park my butt in a chair and write... I learned that writer's block is a myth created by people who don't have, or understand, a writing process.

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