Rodney Crowell Quotes

If you want to take writing on, you should pay writing the respect it deserves, which is to say, reading it.

I'm finding writing very fascinating.

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

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

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

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

All experience helps when you 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.

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

I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.

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.

I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels.

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

I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.

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

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.

I've always said the hardest aspect of the job of being a writer is writing.

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

You have to go where the good writing is.

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.

I never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you scripts.

I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.