Kage Baker Quotes

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'm writing; I'm teaching myself writing.

I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer.

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

I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.

The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.

I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important.

I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.

I've been writing since I was 19.

I feel like I'm getting better at being a writer.

I've been writing since I was maybe seven.

I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write.

Writing a novel - unlike operating a piece of heavy machinery, say, or cooking a chicken - is not a skill that can be taught. There is no standard way of doing it, just as there is no means of telling, while you're doing it, whether you're doing it well or badly. And merely because you've done it well once doesn't mean you can do it well again.

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

When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves.

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

I enjoy writing.

All experience helps when you write.

I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it's intimidating as hell.

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

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

Write every day. Make writing a part of your life, but also don't be afraid of learning from others because I think you can. I still try to think of myself as a beginner because that way I can keep on learning.

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.

It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that.