Ruskin Bond Quotes

My dad thinks I have a photographic memory.

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

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

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.

I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.

My biggest problem is retaining the exact information.

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

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

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.

I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice!

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

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.

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

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

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.

Writing can't be taught.

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

I've actually got quite a good memory. I've good recall. It's often things which other people might not notice.

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

I've always been a very prolific writer.

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

I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.

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.