Jennifer Warnes Quotes

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.

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

But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

I am always trying to write.

I don't usually think of my writing as a 'challenge' because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid 'writer's block' all these years.

I never have found out all I want to know about writing and realize I never will.

I feel like I'm getting better at being a writer.

I miss my former teachers, John Hersey and James Alan McPherson. I would love to see either or both and ask what I could do to improve, to deepen my writing.

I'm writing; I'm teaching myself writing.

You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

If I did anything 'next', I would do writing.

Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things others do.

I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them.

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

All experience helps when you write.

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

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.

Writing has taught me a lot - though far from everything - about writing, so as time has passed, it has become more pleasurable if not easier. I've done other things in life, but writing is by a factor of 10 the most difficult among them. And, of course, you never achieve what you set out to achieve, so you must keep on trying to do better.

I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or wrong way to do it; it's whatever your process is.

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.