Daily life Quote by Steven Kotler

“Writers say two things that strike me as nonsense. One is that you must follow an absolute schedule everyday. If you're not writing well,…

— Edmund White

I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page…

— James Rollins

“We normally avoid mental overload by dividing our tasks into multiple easy steps, committing intermediate results to long-term memory or to paper rather than…

— Daniel Kahneman

Writing takes too much patience and it takes too much out of you for me to want to attempt it too often.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

Once I got my life sorted and started to get healthy, then I was able to focus on writing.

— Mary Gauthier

“work only during the week, and even then I often find excuses not to sit down and bang out the words. I am a…

— Ayelet Waldman

“We're slammed at work and busy at home. Throw in an occasional outing with friends or significant others, and we're ready for bed at…

— Chris Baty

When I'm writing, I try not to think things like, 'Gosh, I have to finish writing this book.' Books are very long and it's…

— Linda Sue Park

A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.

— Eric Maisel

“Sometimes when one cannot stand the story or novel one is working on, it helps to write something else—a different story or novel, or…

— John Gardner

“My favorite “trick” is to stop writing at a point where I know that I can pick up easily the next day. I’ll stop…

— Erik Larson

I don't like to think in terms of writing ten or twelve pages a day. Usually I'm writing a scene, and it's always with…

— Robert Cormier