Able Quote by Ngaio Marsh

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

You can learn all sorts of rules and techniques of writing and still not be able to assemble something beautiful or enchanting.

— Peter Turchi

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word…

— Dick Cavett

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

— John Cheever

The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis.

— Anonymous

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you…

— Anne Lamott

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

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know…

— Jeffery Deaver

To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic…

— Tobias Wolff

You learn to write by writing.

— William Zinsser

I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because…

— Kate Atkinson

If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.

— James Joyce