Make a habit of reading what is being written today and…

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

It can be very frustrating and very deflating to be constantly defined and described by other people, so I've stopped reading anything written about…

— Ani DiFranco

Could you gaze into heaven five minutes, you would know more than you would by reading all that ever was written on the subject.

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Reading or written language is a cultural invention that necessitated totally new connections among structures in the human brain underlying language, perception, cognition, and,…

— Maryanne Wolf

“be careful not to become narrow-minded, or afraid of reading what is well written, quite the contrary, such writings are a source of comfort…

— Vincent van Gogh

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

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Life is written in PEN, there's no erasing what you've already written, so keep writing.

— Anonymous

“Writing teachers invariably tell students, write about what you know. That's, of course, what you have to do, but on the other hand, how…

— E.L. Doctorow

“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

“However great a man's natural talent may be, the art of writing cannot be learned all at once. Jean-Jaeques Rousseau”

— Jean-Jaeques Rousseau

“In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barleycorn less, And the good or bad I say of myself I…

— Walt Whitman

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