A. J. Liebling Quotes

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff.

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

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

I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty?

I write what I want to write.

I am not a trained writer.

I think writing gives me creative freedom.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

Writing will remain a passion project.

I just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a musician, you pride yourself on having your own distinct sound.

I prefer writing originals.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

I tell the stories that are of interest to me.

Nobody owns me or my music.

The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.

If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.

I write the way I write.

I think of myself as someone who thinks largely through writing. Thus I write more than most people, and I write in many different forms. I think of myself as the kind of person who writes, rather than as one kind of writer or another.

I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.