David Small Quotes

I became an author because I love words. I enjoyed playing with them when I was a kid, writing stories and plays, and doing whatever I could think to do with words. I kept my love of them growing up and still love to see what they can do.

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

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

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.

Writing will remain a passion project.

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

I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think.

I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the world, it would be the power to read or watch a creative work and absorb the technical skill of the people who made it. Because then I could have even more fun writing. That's my core identity. I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

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.

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you don't love the genre, it's going to show, and it's not going to be a good book.

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

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'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.

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 some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

I simply love writing good stories; that's my passion.

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

I'm not sure there are too many people who write what I write.

And I love writing. I've always loved writing.

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

I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.