Jennifer Egan Quotes

I'm a very slow screenwriter. It takes time for me to write a screenplay. Also, I feel it's not my strength.

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

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 think anytime you start relying on a format to get you by you've got weak material to begin with.

I find writing really difficult - definitely the most difficult of all the things I do.

I am always trying to write.

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

You have to go where the good writing is.

Mainly I love working on good writing.

Like most art forms, writing is part instinct and part craft. The craft part is the part that can be taught, and that can make a crucial difference to lots of writers.

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 to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote.

I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.

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

I knew I was a writer; I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't know what to write.

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

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.

All experience helps when you write.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.

I have to always remember, writing is really hard.

There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.

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