Adrian Anthony Gill Quotes

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

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

Songwriting is a muscle. The more you do it, the better you get at it.

As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more.

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

Like most art forms, writing is part instinct and part craft. The craft part is the part that can be taught, and that can make a crucial difference to lots of writers.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.

You become a great writer by writing.

And that's what I've learned too: writing is key.

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

One of the things I learnt over the years is that there is a craft to writing, like there is a craft to acting. I hadn't done my apprenticeship as a writer. I did try to be a writer for hire but I'm not any good at it.

Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

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

Only a reader can become a writer. Develop a lively intellect and the ability to become interested in anything, no matter how mundane it might seem at first. Look for the story. Develop an eye for detail. Feed your mind and your brain: learn as much as you can about everything you can.

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

You can't be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.

Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.

I'd like to take a course in writing. I'm not the best writer in the world. I'd like to write more neatly, even though people don't send many handwritten letters these days.

If you have some natural talent and really want to write, you should read the books of someone who's very successful in your genre. You don't want to plagiarize, but you want to learn from that author.