Behinds Quote by Lawrence Block

Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages,…

— Elmore Leonard

Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw…

— Ray Bradbury

For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but…

— Dan Chaon

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

— Don Winslow

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons…

— Nick Flynn

Even a day writing badly for me is 10 times better than a day where I don’t write at all.

— Anonymous

I really don't write much anymore, and I'm not uncomfortable with that. I've tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write…

— Lawrence Block

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

I've been doing morning pages: the first thing I do when I wake up is sit down and write three pages of whatever comes…

— T. Mills

When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can…

— John Steinbeck

If I've written five pages by hand, out of those five pages, one page might be worth saving. The rest is crap. I have…

— Steve Toltz