Elizabeth George Quotes

English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it.

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.

Novelist and poet David Huddle is a quiet but fabulous writer, and he does adolescent longing better than anyone I know.

To write, I think it is very important to read. The more you read, the more you know the techniques of writing.

Some people read. I like to put words together.

You become a great writer by writing.

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.

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

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

I excelled in English while I was at school.

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.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

I must confess that although I am quite passionate about the books I create for children, I am not the best oral storyteller. In fact, I stink at it.

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.

If you have some natural talent and really want to write, you should read the books of someone who's very successful in your genre. You don't want to plagiarize, but you want to learn from that author.

There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They're the great writers. I'm just the other kind.

I want to write books.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

Jill Eisenstadt is a writer of many admirable gifts. Foremost among them are a sharp eye for people, a playful love of language, and, it's probably safe to assume, nearly boundless energy.

I'm constantly creating and writing.

How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses.

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.