Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Favorite subject? I would have to say creative writing.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order they should be placed in an attempt to keep someone's attention and perhaps provide them with a laugh or two along the way.

I love writing different things.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

You can't be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.

I like writing.

To some degree, I consider myself a writer, and so I have a strong relationship with literature.

As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.

I've always liked new writing.

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.

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

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

Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices they hear in their heads. Of course, self-talk is thinking, and writing begins with thinking.

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

I love to write.

'What It Is' was based on this class I've been teaching for 10 years - I wanted to write a book about writing that didn't mention stuff like story structure, protagonists, and all those things that we know about only because they already exist in stories.

If you can talk, you can write.

Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.

I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.

As a writer, I've always been interested in others.

Talking and eloquence are not the same.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

Some people compose their thoughts in front of a typewriter but I find that I am better at composing my thoughts in front of an audience.

I'm definitely a writer. I don't even know how to freestyle.