Delight Quote by Bede the Venerable

“It's difficult to teach how to write novels, but teaching swimming is just as hard.”

— Haruki Murakami

“No one can teach you how to write. A writer writes, plain and simple. You improve by doing.”

— Scott Ciencin

It's hard for me to teach and write my own work at the same time.

— Owen King

Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.

— Eudora Welty

Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I don't really know…

— Chinua Achebe

If you yourself don't know how to carry pencil, don't wish someone to teach you to write.

— Voeun Tivea

“... no matter how we go about it, we are never poorer for the experiences that teach us how to write our own manuals.”

— Tania Aebi

It's all the same for me, how I teach, how I write, how I think.

— Paul Beatty

I think I am a tough grader, because I feel like it's my job to teach them to write well. I hope my students…

— Jill Biden

It's good for people to be able to see an archive of an artist learning how to write and getting better, especially for teenagers…

— Frankie Cosmos

I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the…

— William Zinsser

“I can’t teach you how to write, and anybody who says they can is full of shit.”

— Hank Moody