Capable Quote by Margaret Atwood

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

— Robert Ben Garant

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

— Peter Carey

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

— Toni Morrison

People always say, "Can writing be taught?" I always think, I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to do dialogue,…

— Ann Patchett

Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way,…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Creative writing lessons can be very useful, just like music lessons can be useful. To say, as Hanif Kureishi did, that 99.9% of students…

— Matt Haig

It's very hard to find good and wholesome, edifying and challenging writing for the students to perform. In my classroom I strive to do…

— Patricia Mauceri

I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most of the…

— Richard Bausch

I'm sure that writing isn't a craft, that is, something for which you learn the skills and go on turning out. It must come…

— Robert Lowell

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

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

— John Milius