Jose Bergamin Quotes

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm getting better at it.

For me, my writing benefits from my experience.

One of the things you get to do as a writer is that you get to learn new stuff all the time, and I hope that I'm a better writer when I'm 70 than I was when I was 30. That's one of the great things about a literary career.

Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world.

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.

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

I didn't start really focusing on writing until I was 24.

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

I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was in graduate school at NYU and was very judgmental.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

The books are like children in that having written one doesn't make writing the next one any easier, because it's a new set of problems and a new set of challenges with each one, and having dealt with one before means that you now know how to do it.

All experience helps when you write.

Writing has taught me a lot - though far from everything - about writing, so as time has passed, it has become more pleasurable if not easier. I've done other things in life, but writing is by a factor of 10 the most difficult among them. And, of course, you never achieve what you set out to achieve, so you must keep on trying to do better.

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.

It seems to me in the past it's been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn't expected.

Write every day. Make writing a part of your life, but also don't be afraid of learning from others because I think you can. I still try to think of myself as a beginner because that way I can keep on learning.

When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.

I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

The first story I wrote was called 'Days,' and I have very little affection for it.

Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.

The desire to write grows with writing.