Stephen King Quotes

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers.

English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it.

I didn't set out to write. It was just something I always could do. Teachers would say, 'you really have this gift,' but I just didn't care.

I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.

I have always been able to write on the spot. It is a talent that I guess comes naturally.

Sean's a great, great writer.

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.

I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

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

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

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.

Just because someone has stylistic limitations doesn't necessarily make them a worse writer.

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

I always had a gift with writing. I can really write. I always felt like I can write movies or somehow get into that.

George is so prolific as a writer.

You can't teach somebody how to be a good writer.

There are probably many, many people who are better writers than me.

I don't know what makes a writer's voice. It's dozens of things. There are people who write who don't have it. They're tone-deaf, even though they're very fluent. It's an ability, like anything else, being a doctor or a veterinarian, or a musician.

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it would be crazy to trade that in for something else.