Scott Adams Quotes

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.

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

I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.

I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

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

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

I actually sat down and started three Alexanders at the same time. Two of them went in the trash and got stomped on because I hated the idea so much. And the one I came up with, I got very excited by. And that's 'Alexander, Who's Trying His Best to Be the Best Boy Ever'.

I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.

I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer.

I learned to write by writing.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

He who stops being better stops being good.

I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it's intimidating as hell.

In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.

I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.

I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.

I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.

When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.