Gene Wilder Quotes

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

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 must say, it was a lot easier writing novels than I thought it would be. I think it's because I'm a novelist at heart, and it took me a while to figure that out.

Once I started writing, I realized just how much I really enjoyed it. I was kinda good at it, so I kept at it.

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

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.

You think you have some stable talent that will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will. Gradually, gradually you gain that confidence.

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

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

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'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.

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

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

I think very visually, and I just never thought I had a novel in me.

Honestly, I feel pretty awed anytime I meet just about any writer. I get how hard it is to write and make a living from it, but there's also this almost magical force you need to tap into, and I'm amazed by anyone who can do it.

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.

A lot of people ask me, 'Are you born a writer?' And I don't think it's necessarily true. I just think what you either have or you don't is this ability to see something that's complex and worth talking about.

I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.

I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind,' but eventually, I found my way and realized that wasn't me.

If I could chat with anyone, it would be Claire Messud, because I think she could tell me how to get better as a writer as I age.

I don't think I'm a brilliant writer, but I'm a good writer, and it's just so empowering to get involved.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

I always had a thing for writing. Even when I was in school, I was always good at writing.