Able Quote by Jeffery Deaver

The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis.

— Anonymous

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

I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.

— Alistair Cooke

If you can talk, you can write.

— Christopher Hitchens

You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.

— Grace Paley

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.

— Iain Banks

Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence…

— Jasper Fforde

You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.

— Sandra Brown

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

— Beryl Bainbridge

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

— Irwin Shaw

There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want to say…

— William Zinsser