Home Quote by James Lee Burke

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

— Madeleine L'Engle

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 think when you are an aspiring writer, you must write every day. It's not as though anybody will call you up on the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I write pretty much every day, but I don't have any desire to publish anything.

— Winona Ryder

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 write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly or happily.

— Daniel Handler

I begin early in the morning and edit everything I wrote the previous day. I write until mid-afternoon. My goal is to write a…

— Virginia Henley

I don't write all the time. But if I'm writing something, I'll just bang into it every day until it's finished. I write pretty…

— Martin McDonagh

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

— Abbi Glines

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

— William Stafford

I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide…

— Steve Martin

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