Writing Every Day Quotes (page 3)

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• writing
• reflection
• life

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world. Don DeLillo

• health
• life
• evening

We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the use of the imagination, should come first? at least, for some part of every day of your life. It is a wonderful blessing if you use it. You will become happier, more enlightened, alive, impassioned, light-hearted and generous to everybody else. Even your health will improve. Colds will disappear and all the other ailments of discouragement and boredom. Brenda Ueland

• inspired
• work
• hard work

There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at it till you get there. As Agnes de Mille said, it means working every day—bored, tired, weary, or with a fever of a hundred and two. Marion Zimmer Bradley

• writing
• humility
• pass

With every day that passes I am more convinced that the act of writing is a concious act of humility. Roberto Bolano

• life
• help
• believe

People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and I believe running helps you to do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the... Haruki Murakami

• strong
• writing
• physics

It's physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong. Haruki Murakami

• kindness
• writing
• war

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war. Walter Mosley

• writing
• inspiration
• waiting

When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day. Alberto Moravia

• morning
• feeling
• work

I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working. Lesley Gore

• music
• writing
• every day

I write music every day. Lady Gaga

• week
• look
• little

Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect. Alan Dean Foster

• evening
• enough
• writing

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me. Meryl Streep

• writing
• diaries
• likeness

To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit. Enoch Powell

• writing
• writes
• keep

I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit. Enoch Powell

• writing
• bad
• wellness

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page. Jodi Picoult