Therese Fowler Quotes

If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.

Writing teaches writing.

Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendously easy. I have a hard time comparing my process on different things, but I will say this: The more you write, the better you get at it. That's one of the few things that's markedly true.

When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves.

All experience helps when you write.

Writing has taught me a lot - though far from everything - about writing, so as time has passed, it has become more pleasurable if not easier. I've done other things in life, but writing is by a factor of 10 the most difficult among them. And, of course, you never achieve what you set out to achieve, so you must keep on trying to do better.

I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.

When I met Judd Apatow, he told me I should start writing screenplays. They'd be really bad at first, but the more I did it, the better I'd get.

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised.

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems.

I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.

The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.

The desire to write grows with writing.

I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm getting better at it.

I've discovered as an author that the process of writing a novel becomes harder over time, not easier. I used to think the reverse must be true, that it would be like any task, and the more I practiced, the more adept I'd become.

Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.

But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.

It takes practice to do anything unique within this field, period, in writing, practice doing anything unique in writing.

I started writing poems, and when I first tried prose, I wrote bad articles and essays and columns, and I didn't have a handle on it. I didn't go to a school that really taught you how to write that stuff.

I feel more comfortable each time I sit down to write, but I'm determined to get better and better.

I hadn't meant to do the pattern of publishing short stories and then a novel. I thought, 'I'm a novelist. I know it.' But you have to kind of write a lot of bad novels before you can write a good one, I think, so I did that. But meanwhile, I loved the short stories I did.

No time you spend writing will be wasted - even if you write something that's bad.

I'm writing; I'm teaching myself writing.

I was a terrible writer at first.

Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.