Ace Young Quotes

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.

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.

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

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.

I never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you scripts.

To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again - gradually you begin to think like a writer. Ideas are not found - they are shaped.

Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.

All of the most important lessons about writing I learned from my father. He never set out to teach me anything, it would just be something he said casually in conversation.

If you have some natural talent and really want to write, you should read the books of someone who's very successful in your genre. You don't want to plagiarize, but you want to learn from that author.

I'm afraid there are no magical tips. There is no secret. Writing is all about telling stories as well as you can.

Mainly I love working on good writing.

I can't emphasize enough how much of a writer I am.

I've been writing for a long time.

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

As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.

I've always liked new writing.

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

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.

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

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists.

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.