Paula Fox Quotes

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

I never think that any writer can teach someone how to write.

Writers are born, not made. We can hone the craft. We need to try to encourage someone and make a dialogue, suggesting ways to do something differently or how to improve.

I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important.

I'm writing; I'm teaching myself writing.

I've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

If I did anything 'next', I would do writing.

Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things others do.

My first true lesson in writing came from Mr. Bowden when I was 16. At my high school, he was the teacher known to be the very best at literature and writing.

I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view.

People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.

It's hard for me to just practice without writing something.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

Write every day. Make writing a part of your life, but also don't be afraid of learning from others because I think you can. I still try to think of myself as a beginner because that way I can keep on learning.

Writing can't be taught.

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.

The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.

I came to writing because I joined the North Clare Writers' Workshop, which met every week at Ennistymon Library.

I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.

I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.

When I'm writing, I don't really have much other guide than, 'As a reader, how would I respond to this?'

Writing is not getting any easier or harder. I think I know what I want more, I know what I'm looking for.

You don't teach information in a writing workshop.

I never have found out all I want to know about writing and realize I never will.