Jay IDK Quotes

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.

I never think that any writer can teach someone how to write.

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

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

I've always been a very prolific writer.

You have to go where the good writing is.

I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.

A lot of people ask me, 'Are you born a writer?' And I don't think it's necessarily true. I just think what you either have or you don't is this ability to see something that's complex and worth talking about.

If you have some natural talent and really want to write, you should read the books of someone who's very successful in your genre. You don't want to plagiarize, but you want to learn from that author.

I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write.

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'm finding writing very fascinating.

You can't teach somebody how to be a good writer.

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

There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers.

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

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

Writing will remain a passion project.

I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think.

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.

No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, don't confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

Writing is not an unknown territory for me.

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.