Cutting Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at…

— Harlan Coben

When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest…

— Edward Abbey

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

— Hilaire Belloc

I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's the way…

— George R. R. Martin

Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft to the…

— Richard North Patterson

Writing is like sausage making in my view; you'll all be happier in the end if you just eat the final product without knowing…

— Anonymous

“I have learned one lesson as a writer...keep writing and never throw any notes away. Written parts that can't be used today...may be used…

— Timothy Pina

Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book.

— Brandon Sanderson

writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.

— Virginia Woolf

To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more,…

— John Hersey

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

— Naguib Mahfouz