Eve Arden Quotes

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.

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

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process.

Writing is writing. It's an abiding, wonderful talent, craft, gift that stays with you your whole life. And you can go in different forms, and you can try them. Look at me: I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it.

Ultimately, you've got to have something to say, so a writer should continue learning things throughout life. But I don't think education makes one a writer.

I can't emphasize enough how much of a writer I am.

When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time.

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

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

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

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

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

All experience helps when you write.

Writing is a great love of mine.

I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood.

I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff.

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.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.

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.

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

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

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.