Shane Black Quotes

Writers are so important.

I'm clearly not a writer, but I'm always a fan of them.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

I love to write.

A writer is what I am.

I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

I like being a writer.

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.

I don't call myself a writer.

Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

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

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

I worked with several writers at the University of Michigan: Nicholas Delbanco, Peter Ho Davies, Eileen Pollack, Laura Kasischke, and Thomas Lynch, who told me the same thing over and over again: Persist. Read, write, and improve: tell your stories.

I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.

I definitely have loads of respect for writers and the art of writing.

Mainly I love working on good writing.

I do have the feeling that other writers can't help you with writing. I've gone to writers' conferences and writers' sessions and writers' clinics, and the more I see of them, the more I'm sure it's the wrong direction. It isn't the place where you learn to write.