I never had a highfalutin' view of what I write.
I've been so lucky and blessed because words and stuff come so easy to me. I have a good memory.
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation.
I've written short stories from male perspectives before, and I've never had a problem with it as long as I've understood the character's emotions and motivations.
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 don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.
Your ability to name every single variation of Kryptonite and every first issue in which it appears is a great pop quiz skill, but is not a great writing skill, all right? So just because you can do that doesn't mean you know how to write.
I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
I've never loved composing, because I feel like other people do it better.
People often talk about parachute journalism, but one of the skills that you get when you are a correspondent is the ability to look at facts fast and work out what the story is.
A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.
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.
I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.
I feel much more comfortable as a writer than an actor. I feel like I am a much better writer than I am an actor.
Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.
Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.
I'm not a writer. I haven't written anything.
You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove.
My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool.
It's very hard to tell somebody how to write when they're so good, and they're a brilliant writer and a really good guy.
I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper.
Writing is the only thing I am good for.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it.
