I learned to write from authors. I didn't know any, but I…

I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who didn't really…

— Gary Hamel

I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some…

— Judy Blume

Once the initial excitement wears off and it's time to sit down to write, the authors are usually still very eager, but the reality…

— Deborah Reber

I learned that you can't write a book in the margins of your life. I'd forgotten how much uninterrupted time it takes to write…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it…

— Neil Gaiman

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

— Barbara Kingsolver

If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so…

— Elliott Colla

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don't think I ever gave it up, though there were…

— Alice Munro

I learned to write by writing.

— Neil Gaiman

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

— Louis L'Amour

I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than…

— Gayl Jones

“I learned to write nice as hell. Birds an' stuff like that, too; not just word writin'. My ol' man'll be sore when he…

— John Steinbeck

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

— David O. Russell

With Bernstein, because we wound up always working music first, it was where I really feel I learned how to write lyrics as a…

— Stephen Schwartz

“When I started to learn how to read, I discovered the same kind of power. I could create an environment that I didn't have,…

— Donald Richie