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“For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7, make breakfast and go to work. Or, come home and work for an hour. Everybody has an hour in their day somewhere.”

Writing Firsts Home Hours Morning First Time Get Up Novelists Coming Home Breakfast

Author:Ridley Pearson

“I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I don't take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps.”

Writing Helping Night Silence Morning Doors Late Sticks Phones Dawn Awake Lunch Vacation

Author:Mona Simpson

“Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in the morning, in the beginning of that writing session and the ending of that session, I'm aware that I'm writing. I'm aware of my surroundings. It's like shallow sleep on both ends, when you go to bed and when you wake up. But in the middle, the world is gone and I'm able to see better.”

Ifs World Writing Ends Dream Happens Able Sleep Morning Gone Middle Bed Function Wake Up Awake Shallow Surroundings Session

Author:Stephen King

“If you're going to be a writer you should sit down and write in the morning, and keep it up all day, every day. Charles Bukowski, no matter how drunk he got the night before or no matter how hungover he was, the next morning he was at his typewriter. Every morning. Holidays, too. He'd have a bottle of whiskey with him to wake up with, and that's what he believed. That's the way you became a writer: by writing. When you weren't writing, you weren't a writer.”

Ifs Way Should Writing Matter Night Next Morning Wake Up Down And Drunk Holiday Bottles Every Morning Whiskey Typewriters

Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“My dreams are the usual incoherent nonsense. Like most writers, at some point in my career I thought, well, I have these great dreams but I always forget them in the morning so I’ll leave a pad on my bedside table so I can write it down, and then you have some incredible dream and you write it down and the next morning you wake up and you’ve written ‘purple socks’.”

Writing Wells I Can Dream Next Forget Careers Morning Written Wake Up Down And Tables Incredibles Nonsense Usual Purple Sock Pads

Author:George R. R. Martin

“I should be writing a poem every morning but I'm not.”

Should Writing Morning Every Morning

Author:Tony D'Souza

“Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Looks Book Different Next Morning Written Writing A Book

Author:Adam Clymer

“I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying that you can make it work for the day.”

Thinking Writing Years Book Morning Praying Wake Up Every Morning

Author:Christopher Bollen

“When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.”

Writing Firsts Book Stories Light Work Morning Cold Warm Every Morning Daily Work

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special trick about writing, or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it.”

Thinking Writing Years Morning Special Produce Painting Fool Decided Experience Tricks Articles Masterpiece Solidity

Book:Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

“The water in music the oar forsakes. The air in music the wing forsakes. All things in move in music and write it. The mouse, lizard, and grasshopper sing together on the Turlock sands, sing with the morning stars.”

Writing Together Moving Stars Water Morning Air All Things Wings Sand Mice Forsake Lizards Oar Grasshoppers

Book:John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.”

Way Writing Mind I Can Morning Clear Distraction

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“Writing is 90% procrastination. It is a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write.”

Writing Matter Morning Four Procrastination Writer's Block Infomercials

Author:Paul Rudnick

“Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon.”

Writing Mind Firsts Class Morning Scholar Every Morning Blank First Class Blank Mind

Author:Bruce Lee