Day Quote by John Lanchester

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage…

— A. N. Wilson

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story.…

— Eric Brown

“Treat writing as a job. Be disciplined. Lots of writers get a bit OCD-ish about this. Graham Greene famously wrote 500 words a day.…

— Sarah Waters

I don't have many hours in a day, as I'm essentially a single parent. But fortunately, I'm a really fast writer. My goal is…

— Michelle Gagnon

I do a lot of writing. People don't actually know how much writing really I do.

— Tory Lanez

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.

— Michael Connelly

I figure 1000 words a day, or four pages, and sometimes I'll write more, but I'll try not to. Because I think you don't…

— Carolyn See

I'd been in journalism about two weeks when I realized I would do just about anything to avoid writing, and over the years, I…

— Tucker Carlson

I have written 30,000 words in a month - think of it - 30,000! I hope I am putting the right number of naughts:…

— George A. Moore

I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000…

— Erin Morgenstern

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

— Aminatta Forna

I write about six to seven hours a day, five days a week, unless I'm traveling.

— Jason Reynolds