Writing Ability Quotes

I never had a highfalutin' view of what I write.

I've been so lucky and blessed because words and stuff come so easy to me. I have a good memory.

Generals who can write always make me nervous.

Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation.

I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.

I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

Your ability to name every single variation of Kryptonite and every first issue in which it appears is a great pop quiz skill, but is not a great writing skill, all right? So just because you can do that doesn't mean you know how to write.

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

I've written short stories from male perspectives before, and I've never had a problem with it as long as I've understood the character's emotions and motivations.

I've never loved composing, because I feel like other people do it better.

People often talk about parachute journalism, but one of the skills that you get when you are a correspondent is the ability to look at facts fast and work out what the story is.

A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.

I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.

Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.

I'm not a writer. I haven't written anything.

I feel much more comfortable as a writer than an actor. I feel like I am a much better writer than I am an actor.

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

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.

Writing is the only thing I am good for.

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove.

My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool.

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.

I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper.

I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.