Sloane Crosley Quotes

If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.

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

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

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

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff.

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

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

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'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

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

That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

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

Writing can't be taught.

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

I've always been a very prolific writer.

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

Everybody you work with has their own voice, and if you do your job well enough, even their closest friends or their partner of 40 years isn't going to recognise the fingerprints of a ghostwriter.

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

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

As a writer, I've always been interested in others.

There is no motivation higher than being a good writer.

It takes practice to do anything unique within this field, period, in writing, practice doing anything unique in writing.

I always got good grades in creative writing from elementary school on up.