Aimee Mann Quotes

I am not in the least eloquent or fluent with languages. My writing on social media is quite pedestrian. But even if it was near any acceptability, I would not be in a position to pen a script or a book.

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

I just see myself as someone who has a bit of a way with words, basically.

I think there are a lot of writers that can get away with not being gifted with words.

I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.

People always say, "Can writing be taught?" I always think, I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to do dialogue, how to do character, but I can't teach you how to be a decent person, and I can't teach you how to have something to say.

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

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

I am not a writer, but I have been told I write good emails.

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.

Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.

I am not a writer.

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.

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

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.

There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They're the great writers. I'm just the other kind.

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.

I never was a big believer that you can teach writing per se.

George is so prolific as a writer.

I still don't know whether I know how to write a sentence.