Fighting Quote by J. K. Rowling

Be ruthless about protecting writing days.

— J. K. Rowling

Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days.…

— Anonymous

Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days.

— J. K. Rowling

What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.

— William Stafford

Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're a writer.

— Charles Ghigna

You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.

— William Goldman

My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays…

— Abraham Verghese

Write every day. Writing is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

— Abbi Glines

'Shun security,' I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. 'Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isn't agonizing…

— John Burdett

Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control.

— Roger Ebert

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

— Zadie Smith