The best way to learn to write is to read in the genre you…

With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over…

— Dani Shapiro

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

Before I had published anything, I still hung out with people who liked to write. None of us had published, so there was no…

— Chang-Rae Lee

Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a voice in…

— Steve Berry

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

— Augusten Burroughs

“To be a writer, you must write. To be a published writer you must finish what you write and then get what you've written…

— George H. Scithers

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.

— Patricia Highsmith

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

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

— Chelsea Cain

We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate…

— Elizabeth Berg

You have to learn how to write each book.

— Kate DiCamillo

I write the best book that I can write each time.

— Karen Robards

“You are the best book you could ever write phi”

— rassool jibraeel snyman

I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand yourself and…

— Chris Bohjalian

I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.

— George Noory