Gore Vidal Quotes

I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working.

Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.

If you can talk, you can write.

I am not in the least eloquent or fluent with languages. My writing on social media is quite pedestrian. But even if it was near any acceptability, I would not be in a position to pen a script or a book.

I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.

I've always felt like I could express myself better in English just because the way the grammar works.

I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

I'm very bad at ending sentences. A lot times I just want to say, 'That's the end of my sentence. I have nothing more to say.'

My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go to form of communication.

One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.

And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

I'm not a great writer.

Writing is a very easy way for me to express myself. When I was still at school, I would write for no reason other than I wanted to write.

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

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

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

Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.

I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing.