Brian Jacques Quotes

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

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

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.

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 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'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.

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

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

I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the world, it would be the power to read or watch a creative work and absorb the technical skill of the people who made it. Because then I could have even more fun writing. That's my core identity. I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

In 1970, at the age of 14, I entered a short story contest offering a grand prize of one dollar. I won. This was my first foray into writing fiction. I loved reading and thought that it shouldn't be so hard to write a story.

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

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.

The most despised sector of Hollywood are the writers. A good writer is quickly promoted to a 'concept man' - and then a producer - because he's too valuable to simply be a writer.

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

I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books like this inspire kids to write, or even read a whole book, I think it's good.

I was 12. Our, teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make things up, and that's when I thought maybe I was a writer, or at least a fiction writer.

As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

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 started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.