My own Quote by Chinua Achebe

I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

— Richard Ford

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

— Mary Wesley

I never told anybody I wanted to write, I kind of fell into it backwards.

— Max Lucado

I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of luck.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

It is easy to write when you don't know how.

— Judy Delton

I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how.

— Daniel Pinkwater

If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day,…

— Daniel Pinkwater

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

People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.

— Tracy Kidder

I always was intrigued with writing my own stuff, and I was always really bad at learning other people's stuff.

— DJ Ashba

I learned to write by writing.

— Neil Gaiman