Rodman Philbrick Quotes

'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.

Favorite subject? I would have to say creative writing.

If I did anything 'next', I would do writing.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

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

Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices they hear in their heads. Of course, self-talk is thinking, and writing begins with thinking.

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

I don't want to go out hunting for dismal topics to write about.

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.

The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.

I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important.

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

I wrote all the time, and I had teachers who encouraged it.

I'm a really slow writer. What I need to start writing on any given day, is a kernel, a line of dialogue, anything I can sense concretely.

Read the kinds of things you want to write; read the kinds of things you would never write. Learn something from every writer you read.

Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.

I never took a writing class.

I'm not a writer. I haven't written anything.

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

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

I wanted to write.

There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have some experience.