Rachel Cusk Quotes

I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

I had a strong desire to write and some free time.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

If I did anything 'next', I would do writing.

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.

I'd love to maybe try writing. I don't know if I'd publish anything, but as a hobby, it's really nice. I bought a typewriter, and I really like to write on the typewriter sometimes. It's a fun little hobby.

I really write for people.

Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

I might be into writing... I'd like to try it someday. I always come up with some good ideas.

I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers 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.

I love writing different things.

I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.

Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.

My favorite pastime is to write.

If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.

I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.