How Quote by Grace Paley

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word…

— Dick Cavett

You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and…

— Ngaio Marsh

Writing is the great invention of the world.

— Abraham Lincoln

You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire…

— Adam Scott

I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.

— Marianne Williamson

You have to create the space for the possibility of people speaking as they do. If writing is supposed to lead us in any…

— Lynne Tillman

“INVENTING A WRITING system from scratch must have been incomparably more difficult than borrowing and adapting one. The first scribes had to settle on…

— Jared Diamond

We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.

— Margaret Wise Brown

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know…

— Jeffery Deaver

For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

— Roald Dahl

“It's hard to see what the problem is. Language speakers and writers have always been inventive, and texting is just one further example of…

— Jean Aitchison

If you want to be a writer, you have to learn to write in other people's voices until you get the chance to write…

— Nahnatchka Khan