Crafts Quote by Marie Arana

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

— Francine Prose

Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.

— Simone de Beauvoir

The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts.

— Annie Dillard

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you…

— Jean M. Auel

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

— Sloane Crosley

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

— Doris Lessing

Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.

— Leonard Bishop

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

— Zadie Smith

By writing, you learn to write.

— Samuel Johnson

By writing much, one learns to write well.

— Robert Southey

We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate…

— Elizabeth Berg

Every writer I admire is my teacher. If you look at it, and if you care to read carefully enough and to read and…

— Sandra Cisneros