Best way Quote by Jami Attenberg

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

— Jeffery Deaver

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

— Eudora Welty

If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach…

— Shelby Foote

I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.

— Kiese Laymon

Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.

— Joss Whedon

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

— E. L. Doctorow

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

Learn about writing from reading. That is the right way to do it.

— Maxwell Perkins

“The only way you learn to write is by reading and studying the kind of thing you would like to write — and by writing.”

— Barbara Abercrombie

writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.

— Delia Ephron

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

The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts.

— Annie Dillard