Create Quote by Michael Rosen

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

— Willa Cather

Read a lot. But read as a writer, to see how other writers are doing it. And make your knowledge of literature in English…

— Theodora Goss

“Young writers find out what kinds of writers they are by experiment. If they choose from the outset to practice exclusively a form of…

— John McPhee

The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully.

— Robert Breault

“Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.”

— Sara Sheridan

When I first came over to the States, I started writing, I think, as a way to help myself learn English. I would start…

— Marie Lu

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive…

— Ali Smith

“Writing requires a prolong period of academic education supplemented by studiously scrutinizing society and its customs. Writers also analyze their own nature and physical…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

— George Bernard Shaw

English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is…

— Marilyn Butler

You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.

— Grace Paley

As a writer, I think your first job is to find a subject that you think you and others will find inherently interesting.

— Stuart Blumberg