Able Quote by Warren Buffett

If you can talk, you can write.

— Christopher Hitchens

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

— Doris Lessing

You have a college degree? You can barely talk.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write,…

— Alan Bennett

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can…

— Brian Tracy

Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to…

— George Steiner

I can read and write. I went to school for six years. I just couldn't continue.

— Angel Cabrera

I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself.

— Ruth Wilson

You have to live a life to become a writer.

— Joel Surnow

There've been times when I have existential conversations with myself, and I've thought about leaving and trying to apply my education better. But ultimately…

— Rashida Jones

There are people who have never studied writing who are capable of being writers. I know this because I am an example. I was…

— Elizabeth Berg

If you feel yourself to be a full member in the world, you probably won't turn to writing, because other methods of communication, more…

— Margot Livesey