Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

It's easy to write a good column if you've got good information. It's hard if you have to depend on style alone. I suppose there are people who can get away with styling on a regular basis. I'm not one of them. You're probably not, either.

I'm not a great writer.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

I don't know if I am a good, average, or bad writer, but I write fast. Everything I observe, my experiences and imagination come together while writing.

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it.

Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.

I'm an author who likes assignments, who needs suggestions, ideas I would never have thought of otherwise - then something happens inside my alien head. Other people have to decide whether or not I'm a good writer, but I do have the ability to write in different styles.

I've always been a very prolific writer.

You have to go where the good writing is.

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.

Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.

A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers.

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

There are probably many, many people who are better writers than me.

I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited to study journalism in college. I love editorials and documentaries. All of that came from being given the opportunity to lose myself in good writing when I was a kid.