Dan Gilroy Quotes

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

For the years I spent working on it, 'Constellation' was the only novel I knew how to write, so maybe I still abided by the maxim? Regardless, I prefer the maxim: Write what you want to know, rather than what you already know.

If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write.

Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

One of the things you get to do as a writer is that you get to learn new stuff all the time, and I hope that I'm a better writer when I'm 70 than I was when I was 30. That's one of the great things about a literary career.

I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.

I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it feels like it's going badly or that I'm lost, I know I'll eventually find my way because I've been through it before. But writing itself is still hard.

Once I started writing, I realized just how much I really enjoyed it. I was kinda good at it, so I kept at it.

Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendously easy. I have a hard time comparing my process on different things, but I will say this: The more you write, the better you get at it. That's one of the few things that's markedly true.

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

The books are like children in that having written one doesn't make writing the next one any easier, because it's a new set of problems and a new set of challenges with each one, and having dealt with one before means that you now know how to do it.

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

Writing has taught me a lot - though far from everything - about writing, so as time has passed, it has become more pleasurable if not easier. I've done other things in life, but writing is by a factor of 10 the most difficult among them. And, of course, you never achieve what you set out to achieve, so you must keep on trying to do better.

In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.

I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.

My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.

Writing is a lot of fun for me; that's not to say it's easy, but I really do enjoy it.

I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don't have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels.