Done Quote by David B. Coe

I try to write every day. I don't beat myself up about word counts, or how many hours are ticking by on the clock…

— Jonathan Lethem

There isn't a single day I don't do some writing -- if you don't, you won't have a book. When you're self-employed it is…

— Charles de Lint

I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of…

— Leo Tolstoy

I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us only have…

— Flannery O'Connor

I try to treat writing as part of my daily routine: I write for at least two hours, five days per week. I tend…

— Jesmyn Ward

When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.

— Truman Capote

I write every day for two hours. But it's what I do for the other twenty-two hours that allows me to write.

— Don Murray

I work on a word count basis, so I have to write three thousand words a day. I can write them in the morning,…

— Cassandra Clare

I tend to only write productively for one to two hours per day, so there is plenty of time left over for me to…

— Liza Campbell

I guess I write four or five hours a day, but I do it seven days a week. It's very disciplined, yes, but it's…

— James Patterson

I don't have a fixed routine. I write every day but I don't "write" every day, if that makes any sense. In other words,…

— Augusten Burroughs

Oh yeah - you have to write every day. Or every weekday. Because writing is a job. It's not eureka moments over and over.…

— Tim Schafer