500 Words Quotes

#1. I write 1,000-1,500 words. The next day, I rewrite it and add 1,000-1,500 words to the end of it.

Patrick Ness

#2. I write every day for most of the work day, and I try to write 2,500 words per day ... If I don't make it a routine and treat it like a job, I'd never get anything done.

David B. Coe

#3. You get up and, first thing in the morning, you do your 500 words. Do it every day and you've got a book in eight or nine months.

Vaclav Smil

#4. I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year.

Tom Holt

#5. I write four books a year. I'm very fortunate that I write quickly; around 3,500 words a day. Being strict about delineating my writing time and personal life, as well as keeping distractions at bay, is the only way I can accomplish this.

Alexander McCall Smith

#6. Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.

Jojo Moyes

#7. He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline.

James Merrill

#8. They think if people can possess enough things they will be content to live in prison.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#9. The biggest surprise was that a country like Angola, that has so much money, that produces so much oil, would be in such a mess and so difficult to travel in. Something is almost cursed in striking oil. It's like the lottery winner who ends up broke.

Paul Theroux

#10. They say John Kerry is the first Democratic presidential candidate in history to raise $50 million in a three-month period. Actually, that's nothing. He once raised $500 million with two words: 'I do.'

Jay Leno

#11. Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.

Bill Budge

#12. (D) Write a political treatise - not to exceed 250,000 words or 500 sides, whichever is less - detailing your solution to stabilising relations in the region. Military force above brigade level is not permitted, nor is divine intervention. You may include diagrams.

Jonathan L. Howard

#13. Then I tried to get them in a little intelligent conversation, but it was practically impossible.

J.D. Salinger

#14. I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

Jasper Johns

#15. 13 Among many, many others, the following things were definitely not interesting: the pupillary sphincter, mitosis, baroque architecture, jokes that have physics

John Green

#16. All men who have moved the world have been men who would stand true to their conscience.

David O. McKay

#17. Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother.

Barbara Kingsolver

#18. Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.

Samuel Smiles

#19. Never love someone with expecting return. Love is love's reward.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. We found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words.

Erez Lieberman Aiden

#21. Consider these current rough estimates: Each day, we compose 154 billion e-mails, more than 500 million tweets on Twitter, and over 1 million blog posts and 1.3 million blog comments on WordPress alone. On Facebook, we write about 16 billion words per day. That's just in the United States:

Clive Thompson