I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I…

“A really well-done first draft of a book bares your soul. The purpose of revision is so that everyone who reads the published version…

— James A. Owen

The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just…

— John Ruskin

Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.

— Donald Barthelme

People always say, "Can writing be taught?" I always think, I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to do dialogue,…

— Ann Patchett

“Writing can be taught or learned in the vacuum. We must say to students in every area of knowledge: "This is a how other…

— William Zinsser

I think a lot of what goes into writing can be taught - not mixing metaphors, etc.

— Lydia Davis

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

— Toni Morrison

In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.

— Maria Semple

Poets are immersed in process, and I mean process not as an amorphous blur but as a discipline. The hard work of writing has…

— Kathleen Norris

“Writing has taught me that the frontier isn’t always a place. Sometimes it’s a season of your life. The space between who you were…

— Dustin Lee

“It is my personal belief that writing cannot be taught.”

— Parnell Hall

I would love to see writing taught online because at university like Yale, there are not enough teachers who are able to teach writing…

— David Gelernter

If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words.

— Kevin Bleyer

In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar. So no…

— Margaret Atwood

“Can writing ever be taught? The best answer to that was given obliquely by the rock musician David Lee Roth. When asked if money…

— Ron Carlson