Jennifer Lee Quotes

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

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

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

Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other.

I've been writing articles for newspapers and magazines. And writing is a very beautiful way of expression.

Headline writing is tough because often times you are given a predetermined number of spaces and words depending on the layout and the type of the story.

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

I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order they should be placed in an attempt to keep someone's attention and perhaps provide them with a laugh or two along the way.

I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.

Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

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

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

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 write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

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.

Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.

My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.

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

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

I do enjoy working with writers.