Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to…

“If you want to write, practice writing. Practice it for hours a day, not to come up with a story you can publish, but…

— Ann Patchett

“Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft. If you want to…

— Ann Patchett

“How do you write? You write, man, you write, that’s how…If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and most writers…

— William Saroyan

Learn to write by writing

— Ann Patchett

I do think reading is the best practice for writing, along with writing all the time. I actually never liked writing on my own…

— Tavi Gevinson

I think something many of us grapple with are those times we dread the practice of writing, no matter the project.

— Ben Doller

Really, my job is to understand and portray a script, and I've found that the more I practice on my own writing, the more…

— Mike Faist

I think most writers have to have a practice of writing. For me it is very early in the morning. I try to make…

— Dana Spiotta

Style comes only have long, hard practice and writing.

— William Styron

It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as…

— Virginia Woolf

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating…

— Bill Watterson

Just as you can practice three-word sentences or sentences that travel across time zones, so can you practice writing sentences that breathe unshakable conviction.

— Stanley Fish

Practice writing and speaking about what you do.

— Sanford Biggers

It's hard for me to just practice without writing something.

— Geddy Lee

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…

— Rick Yancey