Jason Robert Brown Quotes

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

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.

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

Writing is not an unknown territory for me.

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

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

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

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.

No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it.

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

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

I think my experience as an actor helps me to write anything. It certainly helped me to write 'August Osage County.' It helps me to write any play that I'm working on because I think one of the things I do well is write good roles for actors.

I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

Sean's a great, great writer.

I know I can cut it with any songwriters in the world.

I started writing for myself because I know how to write for myself. I know how to show what I can do.

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

I believe in my writing.

I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.

I am happy that I'm a better novelist than a screenwriter.

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

I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.

I'm good at what I do, but I wouldn't be so bold and arrogant as to say something disrespectful about, say, Eminem. He's talented and he's good at what he does.