Rachel Sklar Quotes

I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly.

I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

I think anytime you start relying on a format to get you by you've got weak material to begin with.

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.

Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it.

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.

I have to always remember, writing is really hard.

Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.

Writing is hard - writing is the hardest.

Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.

I had never written anything before in my life except maybe in high school when I wrote a short story, and my mother had to put an ending on that.

I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.

I started as a writer. I had the dumb act, but I made my living from writing.

I have always found writing very difficult.

Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.

Sustaining a narrative in sentences and paragraphs is very different from songwriting. But the dedication to the craft and just the endurance that it takes, you know, to stick with it and believe you can pull it out and make it real and finish it, I learned that a long time ago writing songs.

When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.

The writing process isn't something I'm in love with. I'm an illustrator who writes.

Headline writing is an art form.

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

A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again.

The writer's room is a really interesting place to be.

Writing is writing. It's an abiding, wonderful talent, craft, gift that stays with you your whole life. And you can go in different forms, and you can try them. Look at me: I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it.