Keith Hernandez Quotes

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

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'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.

Only a reader can become a writer. Develop a lively intellect and the ability to become interested in anything, no matter how mundane it might seem at first. Look for the story. Develop an eye for detail. Feed your mind and your brain: learn as much as you can about everything you can.

I had to write about realistic circumstances. That's the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.

How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty?

Of course you bank on your experience, but as a sounding board. It isn't that you write down what happens to you every day. You wouldn't be a writer if you did that.

I've been writing for a long time.

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

I was always writing. I've always been attracted to words and stories, communication.

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

My whole life I've tried to find the thing I can do that other people can't do, and invest in that, and the one thing I can do is write narratives and build characters. I can do that.

I'm constantly creating and writing.

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have, it's the only way of learning how to write a story.

I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

Writing will remain a passion project.

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

I prefer writing originals.

Favorite subject? I would have to say creative writing.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.