Colin Mochrie Quotes

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

Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was vivid, and I used to write a lot of stories. I wrote a novel, which I still have, which is so awful.

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.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

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

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

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

If you wish to be a writer, 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 might be into writing... I'd like to try it someday. I always come up with some good ideas.

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

I love writing different things.

I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.

Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

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've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

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.

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

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