Blind Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

Teach the writer, not the writing.

— Lucy Calkins

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.

— Walter Dean Myers

“If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?”

— Haruki Murakami

“Every time you say blah blah blah, a creative writing teacher dies.”

— Michael Lopp

“Writing can be learned, but not taught.”

— Robert Heinlein

“no writing is a waste of time--no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.”

— Brenda Ueland

“I once had a substitute teacher in my 4th grade class that was wonderful. He said learning was like throwing mud on a wall.…

— Michele Gwynn

I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to…

— Harold Bloom

“You don't teach a person how to write as much as you teach that person how to survive the writing process.”

— Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.

— Anne Lamott

“As someone else once said, "Write what you know". Well I know very little, so I write, and illustrate, Nonsense.”

— Paul H Tubb