Quotes About Writing

I never thought I was good enough actually to write.

You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing.

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

I sometimes think about writing just to keep my mind active when I'm not working, but I don't think I would be good enough.

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation.

Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn. She's not very good.

The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer.

Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.

People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.

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

That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.

Good writing is lean and confident.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.

When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

I wrote Pay Any Price as my answer to the government's campaign against me.

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.

There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Blade Runner was the godfather of all these fantastic movies that occur today. What's frustrating is that we're short of really great writing and great ideas. Blade Runner was full of them.