Books Quote by Francine Prose

“There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.”

— Robert Lane Greene

A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in…

— Rachel Cusk

Writers need to learn their trade, and how to negotiate the increasingly difficult marketplace. The trade can be taught and learned just as the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I think you can read a dozen different books and not learn a single thing about writing. Good writers don't read, they study books.…

— Joe Bunting

“The cognitively unsound concept of “close reading” Author”

— Terry Marselle

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

I learned to write from reading. I had no writing classes. It's part of my thinking as the writer-author, reading, but then I also…

— Lynne Tillman

When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing his novels…

— Deborah Copaken Kogan

For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful.

— Alan Lightman

No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.

— H. P. Lovecraft

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -

— Stephen King

“Lay down a method also for your reading; let it be in a consistent and consecutive course, and not in that desultory and unmethodical…

— Earl of Chesterfield