Laurence Yep Quotes

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

I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

I think writers are observers and watchers. We always have our ears open and eyes open, so I might see something in everyday life that inspires me. And I think that's probably more than anything else. Everyday life is where I get my inspiration.

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

I might be into writing... I'd like to try it someday. I always come up with some good ideas.

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.

You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to war. It's right under your nose.

As a writer, you look for inspiration wherever you can get it.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

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.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

I tell my writing students that everything is material; just pay attention.

I prefer writing originals.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.