Adam Gopnik Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.

The better the writing, the easier it gets.

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

By writing much, one learns to write well.

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

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

Writing is a workout, just like going for a run!

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.

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.

But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.

The only way to learn writing is by writing. Talent, as charming as it sounds, amounts to no more than 12 per cent of the process. Work is 80 per cent. The remaining 8 per cent is 'luck' or 'zeitgeist' - in short, things that are not in our hands.

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

I was a terrible writer at first.

The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is.

You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.

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.

Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.