Ryan Gosling Quotes

I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.

I'm clearly not a writer, but I'm always a fan of them.

I am not a trained writer.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendously easy. I have a hard time comparing my process on different things, but I will say this: The more you write, the better you get at it. That's one of the few things that's markedly true.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.

As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood.

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.

With each book, you get better as a writer. There is no back door to the industry. Read in the genre you want to write, as the more you read, the better you will get as an author.

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.

I'm not a great writer.

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

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

I don't call myself a writer.

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

I am not a writer.

I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.

Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.

I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.

Where I thrive is with my hands on the keyboard or my pen on the paper. One of the things I get to do is I get to rewrite. I rewrite, and I work hard on my scripts. You can rewrite until you're 'perfect,' and that's something that's safe for me.

Because there is no better tool for writing than experience. It has very little to do with grammar and everything to do with knowing.

Mainly I love working on good writing.

Songwriting is a muscle. The more you do it, the better you get at it.