Breaths Quote by Grace Paley

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all…

— Orson Scott Card

Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And…

— Lois Duncan

Learn as much as you can. Take every opportunity to learn about writing, whether it’s through classes, workshops, whatever is available to you. This…

— Theodora Goss

Learn to write well, or not to write at all.

— John Dryden

The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not seem strenuous…

— Stephen King

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.

— Scott Westerfeld

If you want to write, do two things - read lots of books and also, in your own writing, practise. Just write and write…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Writing is something that I practice at every day to get better at.

— PJ Harvey

I'm not disciplined enough to be a writer consistently. I write when I have to.

— Vin Diesel

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

— Irwin Shaw

Besides training, you need to be focused and not shy away from hard work.

— Shankar Mahadevan

If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of…

— S. E. Hinton