Ira Glass Quotes

Writing is hard - writing is the hardest.

I have to always remember, writing is really hard.

Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill.

I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.

I'd like to take a course in writing. I'm not the best writer in the world. I'd like to write more neatly, even though people don't send many handwritten letters these days.

As an observer, I'm analysing my reactions, I guess, and my thinking; but about the process of writing... I am not very talented at talking about what I do as a writer.

Writing is not an unknown territory for me.

I knew I was a writer; I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't know what to write.

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

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days.

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

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.

It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I was at school there was a huge focus on copying and testing and it put me off words and stories for years.

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.

I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts.

I tried to reject everything I knew as a TV writer when I decided to be a novelist, and the books didn't work. Finally I realized I should go back to all the techniques I'd learned.

I've always said the hardest aspect of the job of being a writer is writing.

I never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you scripts.

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

I don't really think in terms of making something that is going to be bought everywhere, because I don't read those things. My writing is a process in which I try my best to make good sentences and a sequence of events that is compelling and believable.

I had to write about realistic circumstances. That's the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.

Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.

I have always found writing very difficult.