Quotes About Writing

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

I love just going out; long drives, the ocean, my kids, new music, new gear, new plug-ins, coffee, and donuts at four in the morning. Even just waking up and writing.

I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land.

In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its night.

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.

It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books

Tomorrow morning the critic will be gone, but the writer will still be there facing the blank page. Nothing matters but that he keep working.

I woke up at five o'clock in the morning with the whole first paragraph in my head. Now, this just shows what a slothful person I am: I tried to go back to sleep.

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism

Most writers seem to prefer the morning, or they feel at their best in the morning. Ideas are popping into your head while you're in the shower. And that's true for me, as well.

I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.

I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working.

I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning.

I like to write early in the morning, like, 5 a.m. If I'm really on my game, I don't have any coffee or stimulants. I'm kind of in a dream state.

There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.

I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.

When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three in the morning you can actually see bits of inspiration floating about and grab them.

I tend to write in the mornings.

When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.

For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic.

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.