Writing is for me like breathing.

Writing has become a habit with you.

I nearly always write just as I nearly always breathe.

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

I started writing for the same reason I breathe-because I had to.

I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.

I make a point of writing, if only a little, every day, as a kind of discipline so that it is not a whim but a piece of work.

Every habit and faculty is confirmed and strengthened by the corresponding actions, that of walking by walking, that of running by running. If you wish to be a good reader, read; if you wish to be a good writer, write. If you should give up reading for thirty days one after the other, and be engaged in something else, you will know what happens. So also if you lie in bed for ten days, get up and try to take a rather long walk, and you will see how wobbly your legs are. In general, therefore, if you want to do something, make a habit of it; if you want not to do something, refrain from doing it, and accustom yourself to something else instead.

Home is where my habits have a habitat

Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.

Habits, if not resisted, soon become necessity.

I have a habit to be reborn as a writer. So if I find myself in a crisis that I have never experienced, I can be born, or I can write something, by the power of the habit. Even a soldier or a farmer or a fisherman can be reborn by the power of the habit when he meets the greatest crisis of his life.

Add this to the many reasons to have a daily writing habit:

• Clarifies your thinking
• Builds a library of your best ideas
• Attracts new opportunities to you
• Helps you become more articulate
• Introduces you to like-minded people
• Strengthens your consistency muscle

Writing every day is truly the habit with the highest return in my life.

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.