Drama Quote by John Milius

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

— John Milius

People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given…

— Toni Cade Bambara

The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to…

— Ray Bradbury

I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to…

— Chris Van Allsburg

Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.

— William S Burroughs

“Writers write because they're writers. Because their imaginations boil up inside of them, waiting to overflow into the written word. Ordinary people have little…

— Brian A. McBride

That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.

— John W. Campbell

Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the…

— Anonymous

It is no longer enough to simply read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our children must…

— Ernest L. Boyer

It's misleading to think of writers as special creatures, word sorcerers who possess some sort of magical knowledge hidden from everyone else. Writers are…

— Ralph Fletcher

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

— Paul Desmond

To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences…

— Ursula K. Le Guin