Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by…

Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their predecessors. They…

— Francine Prose

English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to…

— Leon Uris

I learned to write by writing.

— Neil Gaiman

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 worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think…

— Samantha Shannon

Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured…

— Lord Acton

Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the…

— Erskine Caldwell

Many writers learned their craft and work ethic at a newspaper. I benefited from that.

— Michael Connelly

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine…

— Wole Soyinka

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

— Francine Prose

“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

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

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

— David O. Russell

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