However great a man's natural talent may be, the art of…

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All of the most important lessons about writing I learned from my father. He never set out to teach me anything, it would just…

— Joss Whedon

Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what has been written before. Writing is learned by imitation.

— William Zinsser

A lot of novelists start late-Conrad, Pirandello, even Mark Twain. When you're young, chess is all right, and music and poetry. But novel-writing is…

— James M. Cain

“Before I published any of my own stories, I read a great many stories by people as passionate about writing as I was, and…

— Dorothy Allison

Writing is learned by imitation. If anyone asked me how I learned to write, I'd say I learned by reading the men and women…

— William Zinsser

“Through my writing, I learned my Life Lessons from all the experiences in my past, good and bad. Letting go of the drama we…

— KoKo Nervelli

“Writing can be learned, but not taught.”

— Robert Heinlein

Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

— George Santayana

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

— George Santayana

The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may…

— Rollo May

Almost all diseases known to Man, are not natural. It shows that there is a maladjustment within, or between the organs and/or tissues in…

— YourMaj3sty

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau