Able Quote by Chinua Achebe

There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end…

— Edmund White

Creative writing lessons can be very useful, just like music lessons can be useful. To say, as Hanif Kureishi did, that 99.9% of students…

— Matt Haig

Teaching is a great complement to writing. It's very social and gets you out of your own head. It's also very optimistic. It renews…

— Eleanor Catton

I realized you might make money at writing, and you might even make a living at it. So after that I didn't write stories…

— Dean Koontz

I'm sure that writing isn't a craft, that is, something for which you learn the skills and go on turning out. It must come…

— Robert Lowell

Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is…

— Walter Gilbert

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

— Tracy Kidder

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

— John Milius

People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense.

— Tracy Kidder

I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that…

— Denise Duhamel

No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly…

— Cynthia Ozick

Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith.

— Bonnie Friedman