Education Quote by Marge Piercy

“Writers and learners will write better and learn more if they understand the "why" of what they are studying.”

— William Zinsser

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

— Zadie Smith

Being a writer is great because you get to come up with stuff.

— Courtney A. Kemp

Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well…

— Randy Newman

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you…

— Walter Jon Williams

Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

I think the best part of being an author is that I get to learn about anything I want and explain it away as…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books. I always…

— Sarah Dessen

You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.

— Doris Lessing

One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another…

— Anne Lamott

Memorizing the work of others definitely made me a better writer.

— James Arthur

Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to…

— Octavia E. Butler