Dacre Montgomery Quotes

I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.

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

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'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

Writing teaches writing.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

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

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

But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing.

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

I learned to write by writing.

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

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

I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them.

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.

All experience helps when you write.

And that's what I've learned too: writing is key.

I think what I like best is that when people give talks or workshops, it doesn't really matter what level you are as a writer - whether you are a beginner, or you've been around the block a bit; there's something that you can take away from every session.

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

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.

I'm not a great writer.

No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it.

I don't care about writing really.