Writing Progress Quotes

To this day, 'The Duke and I' remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward.

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

As soon as I finish meditating, I get a beautiful feeling of expanded consciousness. When I'm in this headspace I can make so much progress in my writing.

When it's going well [writing] goes terribly fast. It isn't at all surprising to write a chapter in a day, which for me is about twenty-two pages. When it's going badly, it isn't really going badly; it's just the beginning.

I'm almost back to being able to write as much as six hours a day .

If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate.

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.

My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely certain that what I've written is any good.

It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

I'm still only half the writer I hope I will be.

I'd never done anything useful as far as my writing.

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you,” he said without looking up. “Start the next one today.

I often meet frustrated young writers who say they've only got so far and just can't finish a book. Even if you don't happen to use what you've worked on that day, it has taught you something and you'll be amazed when you might come back to it and use it again.

The manuscript in the drawer either rots or ripens.

I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.

Write every day. Don't kill yourself. I think a lot of people think, 'I have to write a chapter a day' and they can't. They fall behind and stop doing it. But if you just write even one hundred words a day, it's not that much. By the end of a month, you'll have three thousand words, which is one chapter.

Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.

Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.