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Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.

Write every day. You don't have to write about anything specific, but you should exercise your writing muscle constantly.

Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.

I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.

It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work a full eight and more. Scribbled at the dinner table, in bed, on the toilet, on the No. 6 train, at Shea Stadium. I did everything I could. But none of it worked.