Seth Grahame-Smith Quotes

You have to go where the good writing is.

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

My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.

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

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.

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

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

I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.

I find writing really difficult - definitely the most difficult of all the things I do.

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

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.

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.

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.

I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

I am always trying to write.

I never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you scripts.

I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

There is no motivation higher than being a good writer.

Mainly I love working on good writing.

Sustaining a narrative in sentences and paragraphs is very different from songwriting. But the dedication to the craft and just the endurance that it takes, you know, to stick with it and believe you can pull it out and make it real and finish it, I learned that a long time ago writing songs.

A lot of young writers ask me about my process. They know what they want to write - but they need to know how. What's the right way? How do the professionals do it? What's the secret?