Great man Quote by Caroline Gordon

By writing much, one learns to write well.

— Robert Southey

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

— Francine Prose

You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you form a…

— W. Somerset Maugham

You have to write badly in order to write well.

— William Faulkner

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis.

— Anonymous

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

— S. I. Hayakawa

I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.

— Craig Claiborne

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

— Julia Cameron

To write is to think, and to write well is to think well,

— David McCullough