Ang Lee Quotes

I am always trying to write.

There is no motivation higher than being a good writer.

A lot of young writers ask me about my process. They know what they want to write - but they need to know how. What's the right way? How do the professionals do it? What's the secret?

I'm constantly writing.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or wrong way to do it; it's whatever your process is.

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing.

And that's what I've learned too: writing is key.

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

I write constantly about everything.

I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.

I've always been a very prolific writer.

All writers have their own pet commandments.

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

Writing has to support itself.

I wish I had more time to write.

I don't usually think of my writing as a 'challenge' because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid 'writer's block' all these years.

The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.

I starting writing when I was about 13 or 14 years old.