Aaron Eckhart Quotes

I'm not a great writer.

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

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

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

I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.

I've always been a very prolific writer.

It's very hard to tell somebody how to write when they're so good, and they're a brilliant writer and a really good guy.

I don't know if I am a good, average, or bad writer, but I write fast. Everything I observe, my experiences and imagination come together while writing.

I don't think I'm a brilliant writer, but I'm a good writer, and it's just so empowering to get involved.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know.

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

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

People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'

I never thought of myself as a writer.

I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.

I don't care about writing really.

It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that.

I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.

There is no motivation higher than being a good writer.

I can't emphasize enough how much of a writer I am.