Books Quote by Gene Wolfe

You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to…

— Pat Conroy

“there is no better way to learn how to write than by writing a novel.”

— Lawrence Block

By writing, you learn to write.

— Samuel Johnson

You learn to write by writing.

— William Zinsser

Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For me, a…

— Reif Larsen

Writing is a bit like swimming. You learn writing by doing it and you learn swimming by doing it. Nobody learns how to swim…

— Robert Munsch

You learn a lot, writing fiction.

— Penelope Lively

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you…

— Jean M. Auel

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written

— Alice Hoffman

You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.

— Doris Lessing

No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.

— Sylvia Brownrigg

Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion.

— Curtis Sittenfeld