P. J. Harvey Quotes

Writing teaches writing.

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.

I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it's intimidating as hell.

I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff.

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

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

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

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

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

Writing is like any other sort of sport. In order for you to get better at it, you have to exercise the muscle.

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

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

I learned to write by writing.

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

Writing is a weird thing because we can read, we know how to write a sentence. It's not like a trumpet where you have to get some skill before you can even produce a sound. It's misleading because it's hard to make stories. It seems like it should be easy to do but it's not. The more you write, the better you're going to get. Write and write and write. Try not to be hard on yourself.

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

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

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.

All experience helps when you write.

I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.

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

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.

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.

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.