Jim McKelvey Quotes

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

Hopefully I'm learning a lesson from every new thing I write, whether it features guys in spandex or not.

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.

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.

No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it.

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.

I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important.

You can't tell someone how to write their own book.

I'm finding writing very fascinating.

I'm writing; I'm teaching myself writing.

Try writing a book, dude. That's difficult.

When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as I begin to hear people's stories, and huge amounts of information begins to comes straight to my doorstep. Then I can write an even better book the next time!

Writing is not an unknown territory for me.

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

All experience helps when you write.

I have to always remember, writing is really hard.

I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

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.

Writing 'when you find me,' it really exposed me to a way of putting together a story I hadn't thought of.

I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.

Writing was something I have always been interested in. I've grown up in a household full of books, with both my parents English teachers and very booky.

I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.

I never took any writing classes or planned to write. But I was working as an advertising copywriter in the late '80s and thought, 'What a shame there has never been a decent book on Jean Harlow,' then thought, 'Why don't I write one myself?' being kind of an idiot and not having the slightest idea what I was getting myself into.

I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.

One of the things I learnt over the years is that there is a craft to writing, like there is a craft to acting. I hadn't done my apprenticeship as a writer. I did try to be a writer for hire but I'm not any good at it.