Jason Aaron Quotes

When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.

I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.

Writing 'when you find me,' it really exposed me to a way of putting together a story I hadn't thought of.

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

No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it.

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.

I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important.

I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm getting better at it.

I fundamentally believe that no one can teach you how to write - finding out how to write a story is part of the process of creating a story - but you can really learn through exposure to different writing, to different art forms, to different modes of storytelling, and with mentors who are able to get you to step outside your comfort zone.

I've been writing for a long time.

I'm finding writing very fascinating.

I never went to school for writing, never took a writing class, but when you're in a room with David Simon and Ed Burns and Dennis Lehane and Richard Price, and they're going over something you've written, you learn what works and what doesn't.

I'm writing; I'm teaching myself writing.

I've been writing as long as I've been able to form words. I never wrote with an idea of publishing anything until I began working on '[To Kill a] Mockingbird'. I think that what went before may have been a rather subconscious form of learning how to write, of training myself.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.

I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write.

Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.

I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.

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.

Writing is not an unknown territory for me.

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.