Continuous Writing Quotes

Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.

With television, sometimes the writing is continuous and happening at every moment, and you'll get new pages at the last moment. We have to incorporate that into what it is that we're doing.

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

The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer.

I've always kept writing. There's never been a moment where I went through a spell where I just don't write.

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

The more you write, the better you will write! So - keep at it!

The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book

I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up your pen and finish writing when you put down your pen again; a writer is always writing, seeing everything through a thin mist of words, fitting swift little descriptions to everything he sees, always noticing. Just as I believe that a painter cannot sit down to his morning coffee without noticing what color it is, so a writer cannot see an odd little gesture without putting a verbal description to it, and ought never to let a moment go by undescribed.

Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

Certainly, for me, and it's gone this way on every project I've worked on, the "writing" never ends until you're done with the movie.

I write constantly, so it flows from one project to the next, and I would edit everything endlessly if I had the chance. I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires.

The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.

A typewriter forces you to keep going, to march forward.

I've always thought of myself as a reporter. When people ask why I don't stop writing, I say, 'Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about.’ With all that's going on, how could I stop?

I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.

I write - and then I write some more.

When writing goes painfully, when it’s hideously difficult, and one feels real despair (ah, the despair, silly as it is, is real!)–then naturally one ought to continue with the work; it would be cowardly to retreat. But when writing goes smoothly–why then one certainly should keep on working, since it would be stupid to stop. Consequently one is always writing or should be writing.

Write. Finish things. Get them published. Write something else while you're waiting for someone to publish the first thing.

I remain convinced that the most valuable use of time for a newly published author is to write a second book that's even better than the first, and a third that's better than the second, and on and on.

I am always trying to write.

Writing only leads to more writing.

I'm the kind of writer that, once I get into writing mode in my brain, I'm non-stop.

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

I'm always writing new books so I don't dwell on the ones I've already done. I think that's a habit from being a newspaper guy because you're always writing columns and you can't reflect on the ones you've already done.