Alan Zweibel Quotes

I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them.

I think what I like best is that when people give talks or workshops, it doesn't really matter what level you are as a writer - whether you are a beginner, or you've been around the block a bit; there's something that you can take away from every session.

The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.

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

I wrote all the time, and I had teachers who encouraged it.

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

I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer.

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.

I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.

No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, don't confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.

All experience helps when you write.

I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff.

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

And that's what I've learned too: writing is key.

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

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.

You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.

You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It's really important to start writing young.

I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

If you have some natural talent and really want to write, you should read the books of someone who's very successful in your genre. You don't want to plagiarize, but you want to learn from that author.

I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write.

It's very hard to tell somebody how to write when they're so good, and they're a brilliant writer and a really good guy.