Chris Colfer Quotes

I thought, if I write a book that is not a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, it's not going to mean that I will not get any criticism. I might as well write the book that I want to write.

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.

I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.

There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.

In the two novels I have published, it was my fortune at different times, and from different persons, to hear the most unqualified censure long before it was possible for me to hear the voice of the public. But my temper was not altered, nor my courage subdued.

If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say: 'I don't know, I have not tried,' as though one had only to try and one would become a writer.

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors.

Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.

I wish writing was a talent that I had. I've tried. Unfortunately, I'm just not talented in the writing department. But, if I was, I would just write complicated roles for women because there's a lack of them.

Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written.

When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The praise is almost always worse than the criticism.

He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license.

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.

Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.

You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!

Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.

Fiction writers have their own world, and poets have their own world, and literary criticism has sort of passed over into cultural studies in the university, and so on. They seem more disconnected from each other than they did when I first began to write.