Quotes About Writing

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.

If one wishes to be a great project manager, one needs to talk less and write more.

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply felt and meaningful. What remains? The story remains.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day.

If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

I learned early on that I could get a lot of attention by singing and writing little songs, so it was like throwing nuts to a monkey... I just couldn't get enough.

I think we can question whether degrees are antediluvian. Online learning has flexibility. Why not master courses in energy, writing, communications, and engineering and get a credential?

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.

If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on learning to write and to speak before an audience . Nothing is more important than the abillity to communicate effectively.

Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.

Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.

I think that's the hardest part for an artist is finding their voice and learning how to write, finding what they have to say that is unique.

The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring.