Ashanti Quotes

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

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.

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.

English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it.

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.

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

I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

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

I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.

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.

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 always had a gift with writing. I can really write. I always felt like I can write movies or somehow get into that.

George is so prolific as a writer.

You can't teach somebody how to be a good writer.

Writing is something that comes naturally to me, like acting.

Good writing comes from good talent.

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

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

There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky.

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

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