Frank McCourt Quotes

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've always been a very prolific writer.

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

Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.

Sean's a great, great writer.

My father, Leo Henry Brown, really was talented - he could write. He had a gift, and he had a great, sly humor.

I'm drawn to writers with skill sets I don't have.

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

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

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

There are probably many, many people who are better writers than me.

Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.

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

My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool.

I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.

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

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

I'm not a great writer.

You have to go where the good writing is.

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

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.