Neal Brennan Quotes

You have to write what you know.

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

I don't know how I do it, but I've written about everything. I've written about my shoes.

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.

What provides you with subject matter is your own language - and that's all.

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

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

All experience helps when you write.

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

You write about what you know.

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

The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.

I've always been a very prolific writer.

I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.

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

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.

Ultimately, you've got to have something to say, so a writer should continue learning things throughout life. But I don't think education makes one a writer.

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

I've been writing for a long time.

I always had a thing for writing. Even when I was in school, I was always good at writing.

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

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

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.

I prefer writing originals.