I can Quote by Philip Pullman

“training in the writing of good English is indispensable to any learned man who expects to make his learning count for what it ought…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The one who writes a poem writes it above all because verse writing is an extraordinary accelerator of conscience, of thinking, of comprehending the…

— Joseph Brodsky

Narrative nonfiction was not my forte. I always wanted to let my imagination run free, and the facts sometimes got in the way. At…

— Douglas Florian

The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and…

— Dr. Seuss

Writing fiction, for me, is a more indirect form of self-exploration than writing verse. When I'm working on a novel I'm moving characters around…

— Nick Laird

Because I was writing verse, my instructor suggested I study Shakespeare. The Shakespeare teacher insisted you couldn't understand the text without seeing it on…

— Jamey Sheridan

“At one time I was weary of verse writing, and wanted to give it up. At another time I was determined to be a…

— Matsuo Bashō

“AB: It’s a great gift. It was the training: to listen, to observe. Those skills are very much what you need as a writer.…

— Amy Bloom

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went…

— Khaled Hosseini

Keep your mouth shut and see what's happening around you. Don't finish people's sentences for them. Don't just hear what they say, but also…

— Amy Bloom

I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had…

— Ted Dekker

I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel.

— Dennis Green