Editing Quote by Anatole France

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

— Theodore Sturgeon

You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.

— Doris Lessing

the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.

— Brenda Ueland

You have to be good. And keep getting better. For every writer taken on, another is dropped. A paradox: you have to rise to…

— Matt Haig

“You don’t become a good writer overnight. It takes persistence and repetition to gain mastery.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

By writing, you learn to write.

— Samuel Johnson

If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.

— Sherwood Anderson

Learning to write is not a linear process. There is no logical A-to-B-to-C way to become a good writer. One neat truth about writing…

— Natalie Goldberg

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

— Avi

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

— Zadie Smith

The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.

— Ernest Hemingway

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.

— Grace Paley