Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

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

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

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

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

You become a great writer by writing.

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

I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.

Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

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.

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.

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

Because there is no better tool for writing than experience. It has very little to do with grammar and everything to do with knowing.

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

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.

Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendously easy. I have a hard time comparing my process on different things, but I will say this: The more you write, the better you get at it. That's one of the few things that's markedly true.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it.

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.

I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.

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.

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

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.