Greg Rucka Quotes

To write you have to be able to know how to put words together.

Writing is not an unknown territory for me.

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

Writing is definitely something that interests me a lot.

In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.

To write, I think it is very important to read. The more you read, the more you know the techniques of writing.

Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.

Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.

You become a great writer by writing.

I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.

I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.

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

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

Writers cannot simply have a go, imagining it's easier to produce a story than a novel because fewer words are required. Have a go by all means; be intrepid, but be equipped.

No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it.

Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.

I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

If you can talk, you can write.

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.

I know how to write fiction well.