Writing Every Day Quotes

• Write all the time. I believe in writing every day, at least a thousand words a day. We have a strange idea about writing: that it can be done, and done well, without a great deal of effort. Dancers practice every day, musicians practice every day, even when they are at the peak of their careers – especially then. Somehow, we don’t take writing as seriously. But writing – writing wonderfully – takes just as much dedication.

  Theodora Goss

  Dance, Believe, Writing

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• Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Careers, Inspire

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• Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.

  Jane Yolen

  Writing, Athlete, Character

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• You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

  Ray Bradbury

  Crazy, Book, Writing

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• Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Writers Block, Writer's Block

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• Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.

  Orson Scott Card

  Writing, Past, Ideas

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• Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Book, Writing, People

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• Exercise the writing muscle every day.

  Jane Yolen

  Writing, Exercise, Muscles

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• May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

  Ray Bradbury

  Love, Romantic, World

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• Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.

  Orson Scott Card

  Writing, Past, Ideas

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• Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

  Rosemary Mahoney

  Dirty, Writing, Nasty

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• I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought.

  Nell Freudenberger

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• I started writing every day. I never stopped.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing

  "Sci-fi legend Ray Bradbury dies" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. June 9, 2012.

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• Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

  T. S. Eliot

  Running, Writing, May

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• With Mel [Brooks], only one time and that was later on during "Young Frankenstein" - never with Zero [Mostel] and never with Mel except I was writing every day, and then Mel would come to the house and read what I'd written. And then he'd say, yeah, yeah, yeah, OK, yeah, OK. But we need a villain or we need whatever it was.

  Gene Wilder

  Zero, Writing, House

  Source: keranews.org

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• Writing every day across nine time zones because Gillian [Grassie] was in Berlin, and we were working together via Skype. It was pretty intense. I'm really happy with how it turned out.

  Zach Anner

  Writing, Time Zones, Working Together

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Now, writing every day, and being paid for it and encouraged to do it, it was as if, in the midst of the clich?d dark and stormy night, I found the magical inn, its windows golden lit, and Summer was due to start tomorrow. I can only work at one thing well. Deprive me of that, and my "back-up plan," even now, will be the empty, stormy, darkened heath -- where, incidentally, even unpublished, somehow I'll still be writing.

  Tanith Lee

  Summer, Writing, Dark

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• You know, there are those writers who work at writing every day. I'm not one of those guys. I tend to work at varying levels of intensity, based on the amount of time and energy I have available.

  Kevin Keck

  Writing, Guy, Energy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.

  Steve Rushin

  Writing, Stories, Goes On

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Ideas, Heard

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• I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every day. I needed a contact with different things, like nature, for example. I cannot be in front of a computer trying to tell a story.

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Writing, Years

  "Book Talk: Paulo Coelho on life, work and 'Adultery'". Interview with Lisa Von Ahn, www.reuters.com. November 13, 2014.

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