Krzysztof Penderecki Quotes

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer.

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

My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.

You have to go where the good writing is.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

I prefer writing originals.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

I'm not a great writer.

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books, I have to start a new direction.

I never have found out all I want to know about writing and realize I never will.

What provides you with subject matter is your own language - and that's all.

Mainly I love working on good writing.

I'm open to writing just about anything. I love writing the books that I write. They do tend to be on dark subjects, but I don't think of myself necessarily as a dark-humored person. I like having a lot of fun.

If a writer is good at what he does, it's not easy to do a good job every day... To invent something new is almost an impossible task.

I spend 99 percent of my time writing.

I'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that.

I write all the time and I try to think of ideas all the time.

I'm writing; I'm teaching myself writing.