Everything I know about life I learned from the daily…

Success comes when people turn what they've learned into the daily habits that breed success.

— Tony Jeary

It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.

— Steven Pressfield

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer…

— Mignon McLaughlin

Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing,…

— Charles Dickens

There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard. What's…

— Steven Pressfield

There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go…

— Robertson Davies

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

— Gerald Brenan

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth." It's…

— Douglas Adams

Even if you don't feel like sitting down to write or working on that big proposal, or whatever it is, just show up anyhow…

— Ayana Mathis

“The more you practice sitting with the discomfort, the more you gently (and repeatedly) redirect your cast toward something new, the more your nervous…

— Ronen Dancziger

In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather…

— Chogyam Trungpa

At some point each day (well, most days) I unroll my mat and practice for an hour. I sit in meditation for a while.…

— Dani Shapiro

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

— Dani Shapiro

“Writers often have the cleanest windows, floors, fridges and toilets, the most up-to-date filing system or the best record for returning calls or e-mails…

— Mark David Gerson

“It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.”

— Gerald Brenan