Greg Iles Quotes

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.

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

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

I've always been able to write. I've always been able to put a good essay in or say whatever I wanted to say through the pen. That was a gift of mine. I feel like it was what I was meant to do.

I always had a gift with writing. I can really write. I always felt like I can write movies or somehow get into that.

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

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.

I never think that any writer can teach someone how to write.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

I have always been able to write on the spot. It is a talent that I guess comes naturally.

One doesn't choose to become a writer. One is just born that way.

A lot of people ask me, 'Are you born a writer?' And I don't think it's necessarily true. I just think what you either have or you don't is this ability to see something that's complex and worth talking about.

Sean's a great, great writer.

I was not especially a writer back in college.

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

You can't teach somebody how to be a good writer.

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

I loved English, and I did very well in it. A lot of teachers encouraged me to write, and because of that, it later made me think it was possible to be a writer.

I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.

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

Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible talent.

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

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 think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.