Richard K. Morgan Quotes

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

I've always loved writing.

Writers are so important.

Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.

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

Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible talent.

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

I really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in middle school or high school, I started with novels.

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like the person. It doesn't always work in reverse - there are huge numbers of lovely people out there writing not very good books.

Honestly, I feel pretty awed anytime I meet just about any writer. I get how hard it is to write and make a living from it, but there's also this almost magical force you need to tap into, and I'm amazed by anyone who can do it.

I come from a family of writers. My mom had been a writer, nonfiction books, and her mother was a playwright in the 1930s and '40s. And my twin brother, Alexi, is a writer on 'The Following.'

English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it.

Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.

What the world does not need is another script or television 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.

Writing is one of those jobs that everyone has an opinion on. I don't think this is a bad thing.

Creative writing lessons can be very useful, just like music lessons can be useful. To say, as Hanif Kureishi did, that 99.9% of students are talentless is cruel and wrong. I believe that certain writers like to believe they arrived into the world with special, unteachable powers because it is good for the ego.

The CWC is a professional organization for professional writers. Non-published writers are welcome as associate members.

I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off.

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.

I started as a writer. I had the dumb act, but I made my living from writing.