Tony DiTerlizzi Quotes

I think that, for physicians who want to become writers, they have the material, the smarts, they have the logic, they know the stories; it's just a matter of being able to connect with their emotional sides - that's the key to writing good fiction.

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the world, it would be the power to read or watch a creative work and absorb the technical skill of the people who made it. Because then I could have even more fun writing. That's my core identity. I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

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

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

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

The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.

I wrote 'I'm Me' because I was asked to write a children's book.

Having a facility for language is an important part of being an author.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

I know I'm a storyteller at heart, and if there's a platform that needs stories, I'm going be there.

The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it.

I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write.

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could find.

Mind you, as a little boy, I always had other interests from most kids. I was not a boy who rubbed around baseball bats. I always had the storytelling instinct, even as a child. I was a very imaginative little boy.

I've been writing since I was really young.

A lot of school-going children are familiar with my writing. I am basically very much a children books author.

It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have, it's the only way of learning how to write a story.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.