Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.

You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

My life as a writer consists of 1/8 talent and 7/8 discipline.

The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.

Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.

Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything can help it much. The problem does not apply if he is not first rate because he has already sold his soul for a swimming pool.

in writing, sex doesn't matter; it's the writing that matters.

Sean's a great, great writer.

My father, Leo Henry Brown, really was talented - he could write. He had a gift, and he had a great, sly humor.

I couldn't even pick up the newspaper without saying, 'This is a fine piece of writing. I wish to hell I could write like this.'

My preference is for really good writing, and I just really don't care where it is.

I definitely have loads of respect for writers and the art of writing.

Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.

I love the idea of directing, I'm not confident enough, but I'm more confident in, well, I'd love to write. I've sort of written my whole life and I think I have a knack for it, so I'd like to write something and see what people think and that would be my first step to directing.

It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.

When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.