Ben Jonson Quotes

I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.

No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it.

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 best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

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

The only way to learn writing is by writing. Talent, as charming as it sounds, amounts to no more than 12 per cent of the process. Work is 80 per cent. The remaining 8 per cent is 'luck' or 'zeitgeist' - in short, things that are not in our hands.

I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer.

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

Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.

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

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

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.

If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.

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

All experience helps when you write.

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.

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.

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

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing.

And that's what I've learned too: writing is key.