Age Quote by Annie Dillard

Long ago I realized that no other person would be to me what you are.

— Virginia Woolf

It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should…

— W. H. Auden

“Four days ago, I realized that being alone was better than living every day lonely with him.”

— Jessica N. Watkins

Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones.

— Clive James

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.

— Gene Wolfe

“They say you should always teach a person’s name first. That way, even if they never learn to write anything else, they’ll always have…

— Ally Condie

You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a real subject…

— Ralph Fletcher

Writing is a bit like swimming. You learn writing by doing it and you learn swimming by doing it. Nobody learns how to swim…

— Robert Munsch

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 count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.

— Saint Augustine