Jane Lindskold Quotes

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 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 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.

Novel writing is solitary work.

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

I enjoy writing.

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

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

Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.

It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.

If you're a writer, you're always working.

I never know how to give advice to a writer because there's so much you could say, and it's hard to translate your own experience. But of course, I always try. The main thing that I usually end up saying is to read a lot. To read a great deal and to learn from that.

I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.

Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

I had a strong desire to write and some free time.

I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.

I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.

I've been writing since I was 19.

You never meet other screenwriters because it's such a lonely profession.