Judy Collins Quotes

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

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

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

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

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

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

I feel like I'm getting better at being a writer.

I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer.

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing.

When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.

Write every day. You don't have to write about anything specific, but you should exercise your writing muscle constantly.

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.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.

I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.

I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.

I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

Writing teaches writing.

Read the kinds of things you want to write; read the kinds of things you would never write. Learn something from every writer you read.

Ultimately, you've got to have something to say, so a writer should continue learning things throughout life. But I don't think education makes one a writer.

I miss my former teachers, John Hersey and James Alan McPherson. I would love to see either or both and ask what I could do to improve, to deepen my writing.

I feel more comfortable each time I sit down to write, but I'm determined to get better and better.