Born Quote by Truman Capote

To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic…

— Tobias Wolff

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

— Toni Morrison

The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this…

— Walter Mosley

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

— Paul Desmond

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

— E. L. Doctorow

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

— John Milius

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

— Julia Cameron

Writing is an outward expression of instinctive insight that must be summoned from the vastly deep of our mysterious selves. Therefore, it cannot be…

— William Hughes Mearns

Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know, because you…

— Walter Murch

Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there,…

— Harper Lee

You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and…

— Ngaio Marsh

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