Andrew Ridgeley Quotes

I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.

Sean's a great, great writer.

There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers.

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.

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

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

My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool.

I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it would be crazy to trade that in for something else.

I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.

I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.

I've always been a very prolific writer.

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.

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

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

Just because someone has stylistic limitations doesn't necessarily make them a worse writer.

My preference is for really good writing, and I just really don't care where it is.

I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.

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

There are probably many, many people who are better writers than me.

I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.

Good writers are of necessity rare.

You think you have some stable talent that will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will. Gradually, gradually you gain that confidence.

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'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

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