Ben Dolnick Quotes

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

I never know how to give advice to a writer because there's so much you could say, and it's hard to translate your own experience. But of course, I always try. The main thing that I usually end up saying is to read a lot. To read a great deal and to learn from that.

I always wrote. I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the '80s developing my craft as a writer.

Especially if you're endeavouring daily to write your own books, you read with a degree of - well, it's hard to forget you're a writer when you're reading.

There is no motivation higher than being a good writer.

I'm way into writing, as much as I can.

I was always writing, since I was, like, 12.

I've always been writing.

I've always been a writer.

When I started to write, I realised that you need a bit of both: the overall context as well as the individual's experience.

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.

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

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

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

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.

I enjoy writing.

'The Fourth Hand' was a novel that came from twenty years of screenwriting concurrently with whatever novel I'm writing.

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

If you wish to be a writer, write.

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

I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or wrong way to do it; it's whatever your process is.

There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have some experience.