Robert Boswell Quotes

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

Sean's a great, great writer.

My father, Leo Henry Brown, really was talented - he could write. He had a gift, and he had a great, sly humor.

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

We read often with as much talent as we write.

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

No one can write like Cheryl Strayed.

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

I couldn't even pick up the newspaper without saying, 'This is a fine piece of writing. I wish to hell I could write like this.'

What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away.

When I was younger, I would write a ton, mostly because my mom told me I had incredible creativity and a gift of using words, only these were words that didn't get me in trouble.

Acting is probably what I'm best at, but there are certain stories kind of rattling around in my head that I like the idea of developing over time.

I'm a lousy writer, and it shows when I try to write poetry.

I've always maintained that people that are funny and smart can do anything in film.

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.

Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

I think there are a lot of writers that can get away with not being gifted with words.

It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.

Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

Writing is above all a question of instinct.

People who can write a book usually do.

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