Writing Quotes - Learning How To Write and Learning from Other Writers

In brief, I spend half my time trying to learn the secrets of other writers - to apply them to the expression of my own thoughts.
Shirley Ann Grau



By writing much, one learns to write well.
Robert Southey



You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
Ursula K. LeGuin



A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.
W. Somerset Maugham


You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.
Larry Niven


The only way to learn to write is to write.
Peggy Teeters



It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Ernest Hemingway




We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Ernest Hemingway




Don't fear making a mistake; fear failing to learn and move forward.
Pilip Humbert


You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.
Gene Wolfe


As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez


If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.
Somerset Maugham