Caroline Gordon Quotes

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

Writing doesn't come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency, I think - the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.

Writing is like a sport - you only get better if you practice

By writing much, one learns to write well.

Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any better.

Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.

Songwriting is a muscle. The more you do it, the better you get at it.

Part of being a writer is just getting it in your bones, getting the muscle memory down, just doing it.

When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities for granted, although this doesn't mean I always write well.

I learned to write by writing.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

Learn to write well, or not to write at all.

My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, the better you get at it. It's like bull-riding. You can't do it once, you know. You've got to practice it and practice it.

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.

Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.

It takes practice to do anything unique within this field, period, in writing, practice doing anything unique in writing.

To develop your own voice, you have to keep writing a ton, and this is something where I think Twitter is helpful. I use it to write a ton of jokes. You have to write a ton of bad stuff before you know what you're good at. And that's what some people I think have trouble with, the thought of getting past the bad stuff.

No one can help you write. No one can teach you how to write.

Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.

Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.

You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.

The more you write, the better you will write! So - keep at it!

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.