Daniel Alarcon Quotes

Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.

I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.

Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.

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

Headline writing is an art form.

The challenges of writing a book are very different from writing a blog or tweets. I've been writing a blog since I was in the 6th grade, so I had this style of writing that was definitely not proper for writing a book.

Writing is not an unknown territory for me.

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

And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.

Being a journalist is good if you want to write books: it teaches you to get beyond the blank screen. My books have been described as froth, but there's scope to be witty and ironic about everything in life.

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

As long as I'm able to write across the media and across the age groups, I'm happy.

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

Even though writing articles relies completely on truth, you still must tell an interesting story. You can't worry about people knowing who you are and whether or not they want to read your stories.

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

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 know I'm really good at writing for the theater. I can deny it all I want. Other people can fight me on it. It doesn't really matter. It's the thing I happen to know is my gift.

It's easy to write a good column if you've got good information. It's hard if you have to depend on style alone. I suppose there are people who can get away with styling on a regular basis. I'm not one of them. You're probably not, either.

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.

No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it.

Writing is hard - writing is the hardest.

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

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.