Figures Quote by William Zinsser

Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what has been written before. Writing is learned by imitation.

— William Zinsser

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All of the most important lessons about writing I learned from my father. He never set out to teach me anything, it would just…

— Joss Whedon

I don't know how to say easily what I learned. One thing I can say I learned is how amazing photography could be.

— Garry Winogrand

“You know nothing, Jon Snow, Ygritte used to say, but he had learned.”

— George R.R. Martin

A lot of novelists start late-Conrad, Pirandello, even Mark Twain. When you're young, chess is all right, and music and poetry. But novel-writing is…

— James M. Cain

“Before I published any of my own stories, I read a great many stories by people as passionate about writing as I was, and…

— Dorothy Allison

I just finished a film a few days ago, and I came home and said I learned so much today. So if I can…

— Francis Ford Coppola

“Spanish…then I discovered I was going to Brazil…” Now I wanted to say, “So, I learned Portuguese,” but I couldn’t think of the word…

— Richard P. Feynman

Somebody has said something - or not just somebody, hundreds, thousands of people have something negative to say about me. I have learned that…

— Hannah Brown

“Through my writing, I learned my Life Lessons from all the experiences in my past, good and bad. Letting go of the drama we…

— KoKo Nervelli

“Writing can be learned, but not taught.”

— Robert Heinlein