Habit Quote by William Zinsser

Learn about writing from reading. That is the right way to do it.

— Maxwell Perkins

Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And…

— Lois Duncan

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

— Anonymous

By writing, you learn to write.

— Samuel Johnson

“Each time you sit down to write, you should cleanse your linguistic palate by reading some things that are vastly unlike what you’ve been…

— Michael Erard

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring…

— Andre Maurois

Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individual voice though practicing constantly. Go through…

— Anonymous

Writing is learned by imitation. If anyone asked me how I learned to write, I'd say I learned by reading the men and women…

— William Zinsser

If you want to write, do two things - read lots of books and also, in your own writing, practise. Just write and write…

— Alexander McCall Smith

The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.

— Stephen King

Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as…

— Jane Smiley

read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see how the…

— P. D. James