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Practise, practise, practise writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes and then seeing… — Jeffrey Carver
I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty much 50 years,… — Harlan Ellison
You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Learn to write by writing — Ann Patchett
Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft to the point… — Richard North Patterson
Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by… — Katherine Anne Porter
An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart. — Uri Shulevitz
Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be unimaginably offensive, as… — Evelyn Waugh
You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. — Gene Wolfe
If I were to offer any advice to young writers, it would be this: be discriminating and be discerning about the work you set for… — Barry Lopez
What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the… — Viktor E. Frankl
Life's a dance you learn as you go, sometimes you lead sometimes you follow, don't worry about what you don't know — John Michael Montgomery
Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive,… — Billy Graham
Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from it, and then use its… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. — Paul Halmos
The lock-step approach of algebra, geometry, and then more algebra (but rarely any statistics) is still dominant in U. S. schools, but hardly anywhere else.… — Lynn Steen
When we begin to understand the magnitude of [the Messiah's] sacrifice and service to us individually and collectively, we then cannot consider anything else to… — Cecil O. Samuelson
We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first… — Stephen Brookfield
My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may… — William Shakespeare
The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn. — Randy Pausch

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