Jane Lynch Quotes

Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices they hear in their heads. Of course, self-talk is thinking, and writing begins with thinking.

Favorite subject? I would have to say creative writing.

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

You can't be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.

I'd like to take a course in writing. I'm not the best writer in the world. I'd like to write more neatly, even though people don't send many handwritten letters these days.

word thrower … phrase maker

I never took a writing class.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.

'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.

You become a great writer by writing.

If I did anything 'next', I would do writing.

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.

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

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

Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say that I had a few extraordinary English teachers in high school whom I still credit for their guidance.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.

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

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

Only a reader can become a writer. Develop a lively intellect and the ability to become interested in anything, no matter how mundane it might seem at first. Look for the story. Develop an eye for detail. Feed your mind and your brain: learn as much as you can about everything you can.

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.