Jean Craighead George Quotes

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

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

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

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

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

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.

I never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you scripts.

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

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

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.'

When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time.

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.

Writing a novel - unlike operating a piece of heavy machinery, say, or cooking a chicken - is not a skill that can be taught. There is no standard way of doing it, just as there is no means of telling, while you're doing it, whether you're doing it well or badly. And merely because you've done it well once doesn't mean you can do it well again.

If I did anything 'next', I would do writing.

All experience helps when you write.

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

I never think that any writer can teach someone how 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 want to become a very good writer.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

You have to go where the good writing is.