Art Quote by Edward Gibbon

I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition.

— Richard Meale

“...learning is not the consequence of teaching or writing, but rather of thinking...so a playful, provocative, unclear but stimulating book could actually be more…

— Brian McLaren

If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started flowing.

— Jimmy O. Yang

I don't know what I would've done without it. I really struggled in school with reading and writing. Art was my refuge - my…

— Petra Collins

What I realized is that my interest in literature has more deeply structured my practice than I thought.

— Glenn Ligon

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an…

— Russell Banks

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

— Rachel Dratch

If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.

— William H. Gass

Composition can't really be taught, it is a lifelong learning.

— Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

— Rob Chapman

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but:…

— Idries Shah