Joss Whedon Quotes

I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

I'm not a writer; I'm not a novelist.

I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.

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

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

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

I'm not a writer, and I don't want there to be any mistake about that.

Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other.

Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it all feels like the same thing to me anyway.

Writing will remain a passion project.

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

I've always loved writing.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.

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

Writers are so important.

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

I write short stories. I write every day.

I enjoy writing.

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

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 just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.