Acquire Quote by Sue Grafton

I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions…

— Kim Harrison

Teaching other people to write is not something I can do. The only kind of advice I can give them will be trite by…

— Margaret Atwood

I'm sure that writing isn't a craft, that is, something for which you learn the skills and go on turning out. It must come…

— Robert Lowell

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly…

— Cynthia Ozick

Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away.

— Ben Marcus

Learning to write is not a linear process. There is no logical A-to-B-to-C way to become a good writer. One neat truth about writing…

— Natalie Goldberg

The business of writing is empathising with situations that aren't your own.

— Richard North Patterson

Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.

— Anna Quindlen

Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery.

— Natalie Goldberg

Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and work is…

— Benjamin Percy

I'm not writing for myself. I'm writing as an educator, I'm writing to stimulate others.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson