Harry Redknapp Quotes

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.

Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.

Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.

I'm quite good at not writing.

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 know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.

I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.

There are probably many, many people who are better writers than me.

I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly.

Writing is not an unknown territory for me.

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

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

As long as I'm able to write across the media and across the age groups, I'm happy.

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

Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.

It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I was at school there was a huge focus on copying and testing and it put me off words and stories for years.

No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it.

I've always said the hardest aspect of the job of being a writer is writing.

Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.