Aldous Harding Quotes

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

I still write the same way and have the same perspective.

Don't let anyone tell you there's only one way to write.

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

When I write, I imagine places more than people.

I have dreamt of being an author since the age of 14, and writing about my experiences has always been a part of digesting an experience and sharing it with others.

Ultimately, you've got to have something to say, so a writer should continue learning things throughout life. But I don't think education makes one a writer.

I've always found the Write-What-You-Know axiom small and stifling.

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

I've always liked new 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.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

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

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

I wanted to write.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.

I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.

I swim in a sea of words. They flow around me and through me and, by a process that is not fully clear to me, some delicate hidden membrane draws forth the stuff that is the necessary condition of my life.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

When I sit down to write, I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.