Gabby Barrett Quotes

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

I learned to write by writing.

For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

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

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.

I'm not a great writer.

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

Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.

I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice.

I've discovered as an author that the process of writing a novel becomes harder over time, not easier. I used to think the reverse must be true, that it would be like any task, and the more I practiced, the more adept I'd become.

Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.

I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

Writing teaches writing.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don't think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

I am not a trained writer.

I'm writing; I'm teaching myself writing.

When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities for granted, although this doesn't mean I always write well.

You learn to write by doing it.

You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.

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.

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

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

All experience helps when you write.

I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it's intimidating as hell.

I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff.