Halle Berry Quotes

I was not especially a writer back in college.

In school, writing was the only thing that really came naturally to me, but it wasn't until college that I realized that I could do it for more than just fun.

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

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

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.

Good writers are of necessity rare.

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

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

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

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

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 think of myself as someone who thinks largely through writing. Thus I write more than most people, and I write in many different forms. I think of myself as the kind of person who writes, rather than as one kind of writer or another.

I don't think anything you've written is immortal as yet.

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

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

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

Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.

I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.

I have always been able to write on the spot. It is a talent that I guess comes naturally.

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.

I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think I learned how to write at Oxford. I did not go to any creative writing classes or anything.

Just because someone has stylistic limitations doesn't necessarily make them a worse writer.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

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.