If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.
Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.
I think I'm less disciplined than a lot of other people, I'm afraid, but on the other hand, I've written a lot of books.
I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.
There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.
Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.
It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
I haven't got a writer's discipline.