Maggie Gyllenhaal Quotes

I don't have the fear I won't be able to think of something else to write. It's what I do.

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

I never thought of myself as a writer.

I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me.

I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know.

You think you have some stable talent that will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will. Gradually, gradually you gain that confidence.

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

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.

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.

I have dreamt of being an author since the age of 14, and writing about my experiences has always been a part of digesting an experience and sharing it with others.

I feel like I'm getting better at being a writer.

I feel more comfortable each time I sit down to write, but I'm determined to get better and better.

I'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that.

I've never thought of myself as a writer. I still don't, despite all the writing I've done.

Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put myself in front of the world, but because I wanted to create something that would go out into the world.

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

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

All experience helps when you write.