Tracy Kidder Quotes

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.

To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

If you're a writer, you're always working.

I love writing different things.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

The only way to learn writing is by writing. Talent, as charming as it sounds, amounts to no more than 12 per cent of the process. Work is 80 per cent. The remaining 8 per cent is 'luck' or 'zeitgeist' - in short, things that are not in our hands.

I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.

Writing is my No. 1 passion.

I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.

When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time.

I've always liked new writing.

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'