Philipp Meyer Good Quotations

Whenever I'm interested in something, I make sure I'm really good at it.

You don't make a decision about being a writer. There was a point, aged 21, when it became clear that this is who I am. The choice is how good you are going to be at it and how hard you are going to work.

If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?