Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I've always been a very prolific writer.

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

I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.

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.

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

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.

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

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

It takes a long, long time to write what I do write.

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

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

Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer.

I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.

I'm an author who likes assignments, who needs suggestions, ideas I would never have thought of otherwise - then something happens inside my alien head. Other people have to decide whether or not I'm a good writer, but I do have the ability to write in different styles.

Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.

I'm of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration.

Every so often, I'll get an idea from a dream, but most of the time, ideas come to me while I'm toiling away at the keyboard just like every other writer.

You have to go where the good writing is.

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.

Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.

Writing has to support itself.