Donald McCaig Quotes

I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.

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

Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.

If you're a writer, you're always working.

One of the things I learnt over the years is that there is a craft to writing, like there is a craft to acting. I hadn't done my apprenticeship as a writer. I did try to be a writer for hire but I'm not any good at it.

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.

Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.

I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.

I've been writing for a long time.

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.

If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.

I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.

No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, don't confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.

To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

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

You won't make a living writing until you learn to write when you don't want to.

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

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

It takes a long, long time to write what I do write.