Robert Sapolsky Quotes

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it would be crazy to trade that in for something else.

Writing's all I know. Frankly, I've never been able to do anything else.

Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they're not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the time. I don't remember writing, because I wouldn't have had the tools, but I think what they are saying is that I would pretend I was a writer.

I didn't set out to write. It was just something I always could do. Teachers would say, 'you really have this gift,' but I just didn't care.

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family.

There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky.

I loved English, and I did very well in it. A lot of teachers encouraged me to write, and because of that, it later made me think it was possible to be a writer.

I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.

Young writers take themselves very seriously in college.

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.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write.

I've always been able to write. I've always been able to put a good essay in or say whatever I wanted to say through the pen. That was a gift of mine. I feel like it was what I was meant to do.

I always had a gift with writing. I can really write. I always felt like I can write movies or somehow get into that.

When I was younger, I would write a ton, mostly because my mom told me I had incredible creativity and a gift of using words, only these were words that didn't get me in trouble.

Writing is the only thing I am good for.

I've never thought of myself as a writer. I still don't, despite all the writing I've done.

I always want to challenge myself as a writer. I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.

There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers.

I've written since I was 10 years old, so I guess I'm self-taught. I've had some luck along the way, I must admit, and I've worked hard.