Comfort Quote by Toni Morrison

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and…

— John McGahern

People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense.

— Tracy Kidder

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

— Peter Carey

People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.

— Tracy Kidder

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

— Paul Desmond

Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way,…

— Katherine Anne Porter

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

I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most of the…

— Richard Bausch

I think a lot of what goes into writing can be taught - not mixing metaphors, etc.

— Lydia Davis

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 never was a big believer that you can teach writing per se.

— Elizabeth Berg

People always say, "Can writing be taught?" I always think, I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to do dialogue,…

— Ann Patchett