Michael Robotham Quotes

I'm not a writer; I'm not a novelist.

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

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.

Call me the author.

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff.

There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have some experience.

I don't understand how you can be a decent writer and not know people.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

I never think that any writer can teach someone how to write.

That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.

I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.

I don't call myself a writer.

There is no motivation higher than being a good writer.

It takes practice to do anything unique within this field, period, in writing, practice doing anything unique in writing.

Journalism is a team sport. Writing novels is golf: it's you and the ball.

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.

You can't teach somebody how to be a good writer.

A writer is what I am.