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When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

— Anonymous

I learned that you have to respect how much time and work a writer has put into their book. I always give the writer…

— Kevin Sampsell

I wrote several screenplays over the years to really polish my craft and learn from my mistakes.

— Gabriel Campisi

My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I…

— Nikki Giovanni

My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that…

— John Ruskin

One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful…

— Michael Tolkin

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

— Francine Prose

I learned that I enjoy directing a lot more than I enjoy writing, which is interesting, because writing is lonely and infamous basically.

— Dan Mazer

I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths…

— Ray Bradbury

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which…

— Laurence Housman

I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.

— Patrick White

Many writers learned their craft and work ethic at a newspaper. I benefited from that.

— Michael Connelly