Decline Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

By writing much, one learns to write well.

— Robert Southey

Writing well has everything to do with being able to read one's own work with an eye toward the unmet possibilities that are there.

— Lucy Calkins

You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you form a…

— W. Somerset Maugham

You can't teach somebody how to be a good writer.

— Robert Ben Garant

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

— David McCullough

To write is to think, and to write well is to think well,

— David McCullough

Learning to write is not a linear process. There is no logical A-to-B-to-C way to become a good writer. One neat truth about writing…

— Natalie Goldberg

I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.

— Craig Claiborne

To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

— Caroline Gordon

“No one can teach you how to write. A writer writes, plain and simple. You improve by doing.”

— Scott Ciencin

You have to write badly in order to write well.

— William Faulkner