David Maraniss Quotes

Because there is no better tool for writing than experience. It has very little to do with grammar and everything to do with knowing.

For the years I spent working on it, 'Constellation' was the only novel I knew how to write, so maybe I still abided by the maxim? Regardless, I prefer the maxim: Write what you want to know, rather than what you already know.

My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment.

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

Writing was, is, and will always be my favorite job.

I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.

If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.

Every 'Observer' writer wants to be a novelist.

I believe in my writing.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

I love to write.

I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.

I love writing different things.

I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

I like being a writer.

Write about what you want to know.