Richard Lewontin Quotes

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.

Many, many people can write books. I just happen to be one of them.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

George is so prolific as a writer.

Editors, for the most part, don't care ''what'' you've done, or how astounding the physical event may have been. You need to write well. Many others are capable of doing what you have done (probably), so you must write better than they.

I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of luck.

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.

I always had a thing for writing. Even when I was in school, I was always good at writing.

I didn't understand when somebody thanked me for writing a good sketch, because it was something I wanted to do, but now I totally get it, because when someone writes something great for me, I'm so appreciative.

I knew very early on I wanted to be a television writer. My teachers told me I was a strong writer and had a voice. I really leaned in to that.

I'm a lousy writer, and it shows when I try to write poetry.

If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say: 'I don't know, I have not tried,' as though one had only to try and one would become a writer.

You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.

I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about.

It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent to write anything at all.

Anyone who can not write should.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

I think there are a lot of writers that can get away with not being gifted with words.

It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.

I never write. Never! I do not even remember if I can write.

It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.