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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing. — Lloyd Alexander

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter. — Mark Twain

You learn to write by doing it. — Madeleine L'Engle

The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

You'll learn that the key to a great book is editing - grinding, buffing, and polishing - not writing. — Guy Kawasaki

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers. — Margaret Fuller

You won't make a living writing until you learn to write when you don't want to. — Chelsea Cain

You need to take some acting classes to learn to hide your huge crush on my husband better — Mary Papas

Learn about writing from reading. That is the right way to do it. — Maxwell Perkins

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills. — John Milius

The surest path to success is to learn to have a healthy relationship with failure. If we aren't failing, then we aren't doing anything interesting. — Kristen Lamb

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire. — Jeffery Deaver

If you want to learn a thing, read that. If you want to know a thing, write that; if you want to master a thing, teach that. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

I'd like to learn French well enough to write in that language. — Stephen King

It's very simple. If you learn how to write well, to write with depth, cream will rise to the top. You'll get published. But, there is no secret. — Dennis Lehane

I decided to create a really good laptop recording situation and to learn how to write that way, rather than have the perfect stuff around. — St. Lucia

Writing is difficult all the time; the thing is to learn something every day. — Richie Benaud

I would love to learn archery. Unfortunately I'm too busy writing and drawing ten thousand comics a month. Maybe one day! — Jeff Lemire

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. — John Steinbeck

The more I write the more I learn about writing. It is easy to say what looks good or sound good on paper until you experience it for yourself. — Jeanette Michelle

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them. — Anthony Trollope

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it — Karl Popper

One day I will write something that evades criticism. One day I will also learn to fire lasers out of my ass — Me

Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better. — Seth Godin

Take a great adventure to a place, learn the rich history and make your own observation about the place. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn. — Jacques Barzun

I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death. — Ernest Hemingway,

Just a little every day That's the way Children learn to read and write Bit by bit and mite by mite. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not so easy. — Philip Glass

I'm not unfamiliar with music, and I really do write music. I've gotten a talent for it. I don't have the technical skills, but I do plan to learn. — Anthony Hopkins

You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader. — Nancy Kress

Read everything you can on writing. Join online forums and critique groups, go to conferences, get feedback, and learn, learn, learn! — Chevy Stevens

Through my writing, I have made new friends and continued to learn about this world of ours in all its wonder, with all its challenges. — Sonia Levitin

You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does. — Mitch Albom

That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that nap, do that meditation. — Sandra Cisneros

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead — Warren Adler

What is your suggestion for someone who wants to start writing? Be a reader. It's the only real way to learn how to tell a story. — Natalie Babbitt

They go to Paris to learn how to make bombs and they come back having learned only how to write poetry, which they think is more explosive. — Rana Dasgupta

It takes most of us a long time to learn our craft. So keep at it. Don't give up. — Jacqueline Briskin

If you want to write, you write. The only way to learn to write is by writing. — Stephen King

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. — E.L. Doctorow

You can learn all sorts of rules and techniques of writing and still not be able to assemble something beautiful or enchanting. — Peter Turchi

I will consistently strive to learn by what I hear, see, and feel. I will write down the important things I learn, and I will do them. — Richard G. Scott

Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick. — Red Smith

Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free. — Ziauddin Yousafzai

How do you learn to write? You sit your ass down in a chair, in front of a laptop, for ten years. Period. — Sean Beaudoin

If you wanna be a writer, you must learn to paint a picture with words. — Brian Jacques

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. — Dennis Ritchie

You are in love with my husband. You need some acting lessons to learn to hide it better. — Mary Papas

It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured. — Martin Cruz Smith

I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here? — Anne Lamott

The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis. — William Zinsser

Learn to write by writing — Ann Patchett

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. — Gene Wolfe

Learn to write well, or not to write at all. — John Dryden

I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of luck. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

The only way to learn and hone your craft is by working hard and writing regularly. — Darren Shan

There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising. — Robert Lane Greene

You must learn not to rely so heavily on others. Only then will help come when you truly need it. — S.A. Tawks

I love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against. — Lauren Groff

Never take yourself too seriously. Learn to let go and let the words flow. — Caron Kamps Widden

Briefer is better, so learn to write tight — Angela Elwell Hunt

I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice. — Sara Zarr

We either learn to accept or we end up writing letters home with crayons. — Stephen King

I like to co-author books to learn from those I write with. — Dave Ulrich

That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading. — William Faulkner

Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn. — Jami Attenberg

Maybe I can learn to live in a way that makes it worth writing about, and maybe I can actually become something more than this empty shell. — Charlotte Eriksson

By writing, you learn to write. — Samuel Johnson

Some writers are born. Others learn. I was born a writer but have a lot to learn. — Donna Lynn Hope

I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct. — Eudora Welty

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what. — Julia Cameron

We are trained to teach users but are not trained to help them learn. — Suyog Ketkar

Learn to love the data and, for heaven's sake, write well. — Ian Lurie

We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology. — Michael Rostovtzeff

I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing. — Alice Hoffman

When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer. — Carla H. Krueger

I want to use things I learn about writing in my acting, and vice versa. — Katie Chang

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things. — Neil Gaiman

One does have to learn to travel with a degree of humility and that reflected in writing and personality. — John Gimlette

God speak to us through dreams, prayer and reading of Holy Bible. — Lailah Gifty Akita

For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful. — Alan Lightman

The core of literature is the idea of tragedy ... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you. — Cormac McCarthy

I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you — Ernest Hemingway,

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. — Alexander Pope

The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do. — William Zinsser

Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that have ever lived. — Joshua Rogers

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas. — Robert Frost

I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing. — Steve Carell

For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before. — Tad Williams

You learn to write by writing. — William Zinsser

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn — Robert Frost

What our children need more than to learn to read and write and add and subtract is to know Jesus Christ. — Ralph E. Reed Jr.

Devote yourself to reading, learning and writing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing. — James Schuyler

In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again. — Alvin Toffler

In brief, I spend half my time trying to learn the secrets of other writers - to apply them to the expression of my own thoughts. — Shirley Ann Grau

Park your ego and listen to your readers. They can be your best friend or your worst enemy. But chances are you'll learn something from them. — Eliza Green

The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done. — Flannery O'Connor

You always had the power, my dear. You just had to learn it for yourself. Glinda the Good Witch — Susan Boles