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Reading taught me how to write. -- Ruth Rendell
I know how to write fiction well. -- Akhil Sharma
I only know how to write musicals. -- Lin-Manuel Miranda
My mother taught me how to write. -- Kesha
I feel like I know how to write plot. -- Mike White
I wish I could remember how to write a play. I can't remember how they happened. -- Tom Stoppard
Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write. -- Elmore Leonard
As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write! -- Jacqueline Susann
A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences. -- Tom Robbins
I spent 11 years at 'The Daily Show,' and I learned everything there about how to write funny, how to write funny on topic. -- David Javerbaum
I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I know how to write. -- Cathy Marie Buchanan
Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write. -- Deb Caletti
There is no rule on how to write. -- Ernest Hemingway
I'm trying to learn how to write faster. -- Tom Waits
I don't know how to write a children's book. -- Maurice Sendak
I almost don't know how to write an email. -- Marjane Satrapi
If I knew how to write a poem, I wouldn't. -- James Galvin
He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write. -- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Comics taught me how to write, and also patience and confidence. -- Vera Brosgol
To know whom to write for is to know how to write. -- Virginia Woolf
I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me. -- Ray Bradbury
Life is a fairytale if we know how to write the story. -- Debasish Mridha
No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written -- Alice Hoffman
Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards. -- Eudora Welty
I think I've just gotten better at learning how to write a song. -- Jonny Lang
Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story. -- Eudora Welty
Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. -- Annie Proulx
It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write. -- Ally Condie
Chance has something to say in everything, even how to write a good letter -- Baltasar Gracian
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it. -- Alan Perlis
I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email. -- Marjane Satrapi
It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song. -- Bob Seger
I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write. -- David O. Russell
No one can help you write. No one can teach you how to write. -- Tony Gilroy
A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite -- William Goldman
You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics. -- Petra Haden
Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else. -- Julia Quinn
Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write. -- Charlie Kaufman
A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one. -- Robert M. Hutchins
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When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories. -- Amanda Hocking
I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story. -- Lucy Hale
We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology. -- Michael Rostovtzeff
Here I am, a Palestinian Arab who only knows how to write in Hebrew, stuck in central Illinois, -- Sayed Kashua
I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write. -- John Irving
As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write. I'm gonna write the way I wanna write! -- Jacqueline Susann
You cannot teach a person how to write songs. It's about being your own person and following your instincts. -- Kiesza
You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. -- Gene Wolfe
I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking. -- Alistair Cooke
Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one. -- Eudora Welty
Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith. -- Bonnie Friedman
The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write. -- Gabriel Fielding
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I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up. -- Shane Carruth
It is, as we know, the victors who write the history, especially when only the victors know how to write. -- Neil MacGregor
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest. -- Barry Mann
If something happens to me, you're going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life. -- Taylor Swift
I know how to write. So I am not totally at the mercy of filmmakers, but it's not a bad point. -- Sarah Silverman
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. -- Anne Rice
But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory. -- Ernest Lehman
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. -- Ernest Hemingway
I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts. -- Alice Mattison
I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. That's my own taste. I prefer to stumble on it. -- Chinua Achebe
This is the city that taught me how to write all of these cool songs. Yeah, you guys definitely need a royalty. -- Katy Perry
By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo. -- Howard Rheingold
It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere. -- Annie Dillard
It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write. -- Henry R. Luce
You were the poem I never knew how to write because no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel. -- Shannon L. Alder
I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to write. -- Hisham Matar
Sometimes, I don't know that words for things, how to write down the feeling of knowing that every dying person leaves something behind. -- Jacqueline Woodson
I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write. -- Derek Bok
You're walking by the tomb of Battiades, Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy Laughter at the right moment, over the wine. -- Callimachus
With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again. -- Dani Shapiro
I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write. -- Chris Van Allsburg
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays. -- Jose Saramago
I decided to create a really good laptop recording situation and to learn how to write that way, rather than have the perfect stuff around. -- St. Lucia
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges. -- Ernest Hemingway
I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen. -- Denis Leary
I wouldn't know how to write a weak female character. I read so much epic fantasy growing up, where you have these sword-wielding, in-your-face warrior maidens. -- Richelle Mead
I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading. -- Amy Bloom
Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song. -- T-Pain
It's very simple. If you learn how to write well, to write with depth, cream will rise to the top. You'll get published. But, there is no secret. -- Dennis Lehane
I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me. -- Carl Sandburg
The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write. -- Joseph Addison
Reading is an exercise for learning how to write and vice versa. I have read myself into being a Christian, but I have also written myself into being a Christian. -- Stanley Hauerwas
At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler. -- Dennis Ritchie
I just don't know how to write a love letter. What can you say to a girl that shows you really like her?" "How about, enclosed please find a cookie? -- Charles M. Schulz
At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler -- Dennis Ritchie
Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights. -- Hal David
I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write. -- Robert E. Howard
I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great training for writing novels from anthropology and from Margaret Mead. -- Alan Furst
I just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a musician, you pride yourself on having your own distinct sound. -- Terry McMillan
They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity allowed him to comprehend. That is the glory of the Puritan fathers. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
If you keep the situations real, the characters' behavior will be real and honest, too. If they're suddenly robbing a bank and exchanging snappy dialogue, well, I wouldn't even know how to write that. -- Nicole Holofcener
You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. -- Annie Proulx
You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves. -- Pat Conroy
The last thing reporters and editors want to be told is what to do and how to write. They don't want to be some politically correct, Orwellian, kind of like "you're telling me how to write about...?" -- Jose Antonio Vargas
I was 35 when I started taking classes at Ohio University. After I got my degree, I kept working at the mill. When I was 45, I decided I was going to try to learn how to write short stories. -- Donald Ray Pollock
I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling. -- Kate Atkinson
It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live. -- Robert B. Parker
I've been writing plays since the seventies and only came to moviemaking when I basically realized that I needed some money to pay the rent. I started to watch films with an eye to figuring out how to write them. -- John Patrick Shanley
In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now. -- Aaron Lazar
I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable. -- Nick Cave
I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon. -- Corey Haim
Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish. -- Kate Atkinson
I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think I learned how to write at Oxford. I did not go to any creative writing classes or anything. -- Samantha Shannon
O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters; and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair. -- William Congreve
Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. -- Amy Hempel
Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an orchestrator, an arranger and a musician first. I know how to write and rewrite songs, and the genius is really in the rewriting. -- Nile Rodgers
I'd like to teach kids how to write songs. This will be my first year so I'm just as green as some of the rest of the folks. It's like a music camp and I get to hang out with some of the past contestants. -- Bo Bice
As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write and I didn't know how to write novels. Therefore, I made written collages of aphorisms and rags. -- Haruki Murakami
The reason I'm here today, the reason I own a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle and the reason I have a big log cabin and I got cars and all kinds of stuff is because I'm a writer and writers own everything. So you learn how to write. -- Dan Aykroyd
I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system. -- Mark Zuckerberg
But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. But that's not a reason not to write love poetry. Some of the best poetry ever written has been love poetry, and some of the greatest poetry ever written has been political poetry. -- W. S. Merwin
For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses. -- David Baker
I'm still trying to figure out how to write about cancer and my family's experience with it. If I had been able to write 'The Pura Principle' back in those days, I'm positive it would have had no humor in it. Which means the story would have been false. -- Junot Diaz
I love films from all these different points of views that used the idea of the school as a way to talk about the American experience. It took me a while to figure how to write a movie like that, because that's not something you learn at film school -- Justin Simien
I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift. -- Alexei Sayle

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