Connected Quote by Marilyn Hacker

Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of…

— Alice McDermott

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

— Paul Desmond

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

— Beryl Bainbridge

Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult…

— Martin Amis

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Writing can be taught or learned in the vacuum. We must say to students in every area of knowledge: "This is a how other…

— William Zinsser

I came out with a book called The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language. It's a book that describes how writing is…

— Natalie Goldberg

I think a lot of what goes into writing can be taught - not mixing metaphors, etc.

— Lydia Davis

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and…

— John McGahern

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes…

— Anne Sullivan Macy

I think all writing is done through memory

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

— Joseph Brodsky