Edwidge Danticat Quotes

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. If you don't practice, you don't get any better.

This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it.

Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get. But it seems to take a longer time to get better at writing than hammering nails.

The better the writing, the easier it gets.

Writing is a skill, not a talent, and this difference is important because a skill can be improved by practice.

Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.

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.

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.

A company gets better at the things it practices.

I'm getting more confident the more I play.

The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them. A young writer must cross many psychological barriers to acquire confidence in his capacity to produce good work-especially his first full-length book-and he cannot do this by staring at a piece of blank paper, searching for the perfect sentence.

You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isn’t divinely inspired – it’s hard work.

Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with writing, you think you should come out fresh the first time.

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

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

I'm very comfortable writing.

It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.

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

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

Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.

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

By writing much, one learns to write well.

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