Top 1200 Writing Every Day Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

After my father died, we went to church for a long time every day, and then every other day during the summer.

There's no such thing as putting extra effort in on one day than the other. Every single day is a lot of effort, usually maximum effort every day.

For any women trying to do comedy, I would suggest you do one thing every day towards your goal. First, you figure out what it is you want to accomplish. Don't be afraid to set a new goal every day, but every single day, do one thing towards your goal, and you will achieve it.

I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.

Signing with Hollywood Records was a dream come true. I am so blessed to get to do the things that I love to do every day of my life. My fans can expect to be blown away with the music I'm writing.

I just take it one day at a time, try to forget about what I did the day before. Go out there like every day is Opening Day.

I work every day. I write every day. I walk around in silent conversation with my latest unfinished songs.

I was a lot dumber when I was writing the novel. I felt like worse of a writer because I wrote many of the short stories in one sitting or over maybe three days, and they didn't change that much. There weren't many, many drafts. That made me feel semi-brilliant and part of a magical process. Writing the novel wasn't like that. I would come home every day from my office and say, "Well, I still really like the story, I just wish it was better written." At that point, I didn't realize I was writing a first draft. And the first draft was the hardest part.

I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.

Every day is a crossroads. Every day is a chance to change your life and our world for the better.

Even if the play is great, every day in theatre you have to question everything because the audience is new every day. I love that.

Now, writing every day, and being paid for it and encouraged to do it, it was as if, in the midst of the clich?d dark and stormy night, I found the magical inn, its windows golden lit, and Summer was due to start tomorrow. I can only work at one thing well. Deprive me of that, and my "back-up plan," even now, will be the empty, stormy, darkened heath -- where, incidentally, even unpublished, somehow I'll still be writing.

Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.

As a chef, a mom, and a member of Team No Kid Hungry, I believe that every child deserves three meals a day, every day.

I think when you write, you should call it a "writing spree." I don't write every day, and I don't write regularly.

One thing I've had to realize in my career is that I can't do it all. Sometimes we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to make sure we're writing the next hit. There are other people out there, and that's what they do every day, and they have strengths that I don't have.

Every day, I get closer to God. Every day, my will to do the right thing gets stronger.

I admire that Robin isn't scared to show up every day, since he gets embarrassed every day.

I spend a lot of time on social media, I'm on Facebook every day; I'm on Twitter every day.

All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write.

I try to improve every day so that things go well. You must keep training strongly every day.

Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.

Writing and playing songs is something that I've loved doing since the day I started. It's never been a chore; it's always a hobby. To be able to do that from day to day makes me believe I'm a very lucky person.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

Left to it's own devices, writing is like weather. It has a drama, a form, a force to it that shapes the day. Just as good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche. There is something very right about simply letting yourself write. And the way to do that is to begin, to begin where you are.

Every weekend from, like, 1974 to 1978, I'd trudge over to the Greenwich library, which gathered up almost every major newspaper in the country. I would sit there all day long and read and read and read the reviews. I remember being twelve or thirteen and writing to Judith Crist, Pauline Kael, and Roger Ebert.

It is always good to keep learning. Every day things change and we should recycle ourselves every day.

I have a deep attachment to the natural world. It's a major influence on my writing, and as I look out over the wonderful snow-covered Santa Fe hills, I'm grateful for every day that I live here.

All of a sudden, when you're exposed to a large audience, they think you just started writing that day, but I started years before. I look back at things I wrote then and I'm so embarrassed - the writing seems so blocky and choppy to me and I wouldn't have wanted success any sooner because the writing was even worse.

I have therapy. Every day. I read a bit of Freud; I try to be a better person. Every day.

After college, I moved to Breckenridge, Colorado, and went snowboarding every day. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew what I didn't want to do. So I applied to grad school for writing, and I just gave it a shot and took it from there.

In an environment where everybody's jersey is up for grabs, like what Joe Schmidt is currently doing with Ireland in rugby, a massive competitive environment is created every night at training, every day in the gym and every day, believe it or not, in the tactical computer room.

I get to wake up and do what I love every day and I don't take that for granted. I feel grateful for it every day.

Keeping a habit, in the smallest way, protects and strengthens it. I write every day, even if it's just a sentence, to keep my habit of daily writing strong.

Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.

People have gotten to know I visit the gym every day. They are there to meet me every day.

I grew up - my dad, every time I was with my dad, he was always - not always, but he wrote. He's a writer. So he was always in his office writing. He made a plan and, like, a point of, 'This is my work. I'm going to do this every day for these amount of hours.' So I think that's where I got, like, a work sort of ethic.

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words.

I make sure I'm smiling every day, I'm laughing every day, no matter how sore or achy I am or whatever.

I have days when I say, 'I'm going to have five chocolate chip cookies today.' I'll have a salad every day but every week I have a cheat day.

My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.

Oh, some day I'll tell you about why I wrote more than 1,500 Gmail filters. They throw away more than 300 emails every day. Every day. It's the best thing I ever did for my productivity.

To learn a piece on the piano - even a simple one - has proved every bit as agonizing as writing a chapter in a book, every bit as tedious and hopeless and halting. But this is not to say that the piano hasn't helped my writing. It has, just not in the ways I expected.

After I quit being a lawyer in '95, I was having a lot of trouble writing. Then I read somewhere that Willa Cather read a chapter of the Bible every day before she started work. I thought, 'Okay, I'll try it.' Before each writing session, I started to read the Bible like a writer, thinking about language, character, and themes.

I, as the writer, can be very clear that I am writing a work of heightened fiction, as opposed to documenting horrible things that happen every day in the world. Which I have no interest in doing.

I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every day in order to keep the rhythm, to keep myself focused on what I'm doing.

The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.

And no matter how good you are you have to work at it. It's non-stop every day, every day. The best the offensive line feels is when the season starts.

My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.

I have to look after myself. I go to the gym every day; I have physio every day, I have a couple of guys that work with my body a lot.

You know this moment in time Is all my life Every day is each day that's passed Every person alive is everyone's who's died

I think about trust and confidence as something that you earn every day, and we will keep at it, earning it every day.

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.

I think about Rio every day. Every day in training, it's something that drives me forward. I want to be Olympic champion.

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing I'm in the middle of, I do that, but when I'm not, time can go by when I'm not writing at all.

Holding up Shaq every damn day - it's crazy, you do it four times a year, but doing it every day in practice is difficult.

I meditate twice a day. I meditate two hours every day. I spend at least an hour working out. So that's three hours every day of something mind/body discipline. Other than that: nothing.

Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get to Sentence Z. The hard part of writing isn't the writing; it's the thinking. You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: What does the reader need to know next?