George Lucas Quotes

There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter and being an anthropologist are the two other things I can imagine doing.

I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.

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.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

I'm never going to write a book like Anthony Sher did, you know, 'The Broadcaster Prepares.' I'm only talking to myself. I'd have liked to be a writer, or a journalist, but if things don't come easy to me I don't do them. I think if you're always thinking how difficult something is, you shouldn't be doing it.

I don't know if I want to be a writer.

The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter.

Low self-esteem comes from who you assess yourself to be. It's about who you are, and I didn't think I was anything or anybody.

Right now I think I'm the smartest I've ever been. I'm doing everything great now and everything perfect. Like with this taxes stuff. I'm getting better at that. I'm making sure everything is a write-off. Every single thing.

Don't write about what you know - write about what you're interested in. Don't write about yourself - you aren't as interesting as you think.

I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about.

You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you're not writing.

Seriously, I don't consider myself a writer. I don't think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it.

If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times over, and over, and over, and that if you want to write at a good level, you'll have to do that too.

The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn't very good.

I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness.

I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.

Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.

I'm a bit rubbish at knowing when something is good. But if it goes out and I can say, "I wasn't as bad as I thought I would be", then I'll be happy. Until then, I'll be thinking, "I shouldn't be here!"

I've always avoided those sorts of self-assessments because if you give yourself a 10 out of 10 people think you're a big head, if you give yourself a 6 out of 10 they think you're plagued with self-doubt, so I'm just not going to rate myself.

I always think about myself as a writer; that comes out of being a reader first, and I don't think I kind of got to really playing with language in any formal way probably until I was in my mid-twenties.

I don't worry about being exposed. When I'm writing about myself I think about myself as a character. There is a ton of stuff going on in my life that I don't write about. If I need to write that stuff down, I write about myself in my diary.