Adam Scott Quotes

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

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.

Writing has got to be some of the hardest work I know.

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

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don't think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

Writing takes too much patience and it takes too much out of you for me to want to attempt it too often.

Of course I knew that writing was terrifically hard work and that there was no secret code, as in a video game, that would unlock Tolstoy-mode, enabling me to crank out canon-worthy novellas before lunch.

You can't teach somebody how to be a good writer.

I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.

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

To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.

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

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

I find writing really difficult - definitely the most difficult of all the things I do.

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.

I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.

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

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.

If you're a writer, you're always working.

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.

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

Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.

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'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.