Dave East Quotes

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

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

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.

Sean's a great, great writer.

I didn't set out to write. It was just something I always could do. Teachers would say, 'you really have this gift,' but I just didn't care.

Writing is the only thing I am good for.

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

The most despised sector of Hollywood are the writers. A good writer is quickly promoted to a 'concept man' - and then a producer - because he's too valuable to simply be a writer.

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

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

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.

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.

My father, Leo Henry Brown, really was talented - he could write. He had a gift, and he had a great, sly humor.

While I wasn't very good at much else in school, in my creative-writing classes or when we had to do some writing in my English classes, I tended to do better at it.

I always had a thing for writing. Even when I was in school, I was always good at writing.

I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.

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.

I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but (for me, at least) there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.

I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood.

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.

I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.

I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.

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.