Giancarlo Esposito Quotes

You have to go where the good writing is.

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

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.

Ultimately, the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing, no amount of serialization or free downloads is going to matter. You have to write something worth reading, and often it takes time to get at that level.

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

I just keep following the good writing. I'm not good enough to make bad writing look good. Some people can, and I admire them for it, but I cannot. I will go down with the ship.

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

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

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

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

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

I've always been a very prolific writer.

Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.

I don't know if I am a good, average, or bad writer, but I write fast. Everything I observe, my experiences and imagination come together while writing.

My preference is for really good writing, and I just really don't care where it is.

Mainly I love working on good writing.

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

You can't teach somebody how to be a good writer.

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

There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers.

I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.

I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.

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.

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.