Beats Quote by Sandra Cisneros

I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than…

— Gayl Jones

I learned that you can't write a book in the margins of your life. I'd forgotten how much uninterrupted time it takes to write…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

From a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for the deep understanding of the literature; not simply to…

— Jacqueline Woodson

What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind…

— Renny Harlin

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

— Francine Prose

In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.

— Maria Semple

I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.

— Isabel Allende

I love when people write about something, I learn what I'm doing through the eyes of a good critic, positive or negative. It's still…

— David LaChapelle

After I work with my editor to get the manuscript in good shape, I sketch and lay out a whole book loosely, usually in…

— Adam Rex

I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my…

— Gil Scott-Heron

I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.

— Ernest Gaines