Quote

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.

To write you have to be able to know how to put words together.

You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.

I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say.

The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how we come to become speakers. Writers you admire, you admire the way they plot, you admire the way they create a character, you admire the way they put a sentence together, those are the writers you should be reading.

My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, the better you get at it. It's like bull-riding. You can't do it once, you know. You've got to practice it and practice it.

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.

Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill.

It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.