Rebecca Ferguson Quotes

I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.

There are probably many, many people who are better writers than me.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

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.

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

I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.

I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

The way to write is well, and how is your own business.

My seventeen years of teaching inform my sense of audience in every line I write.

My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool.

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 write fast, I write beautifully, I write convincingly.

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better.

English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it.

Sean's a great, great writer.

Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.

It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.

Just because someone has stylistic limitations doesn't necessarily make them a worse writer.

One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.

I'm quite good at not writing.

How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty?

My father, Leo Henry Brown, really was talented - he could write. He had a gift, and he had a great, sly humor.

I couldn't even pick up the newspaper without saying, 'This is a fine piece of writing. I wish to hell I could write like this.'