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I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
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. -- Tracy Kidder
I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape. -- Andrew Dost
Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading. -- Eudora Welty
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. -- Gerald R. Ford
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 -- Tracy Kidder
I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go. -- Emmanuel Lewis
Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. -- Edward Gibbon
I'm learning a lot, and I'm trying to make it so that every time I write, it's better than the last time I've written. -- Kristin Cast
It would be really easy to write off the Dawn Wall as impossible. In terms of climbing technique, I'm learning a new language on this granite. -- Kevin Jorgeson
Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works. -- Moby
I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age. -- Russell Crowe
Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant. -- Walter Gilbert
Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up. -- Patty Murray
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
A friend and I started a band together. I am kind of learning how to play instruments. We write stuff over Skype or e-mail. I send one part and he writes another. -- Reece Thompson
I decided to become a surgeon named Bernie who writes books and gives seminars to teach people what he has learned and is still learning about how to deal with life's difficulties. -- Bernie Siegel
I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book; you just tell the best story you know how to tell. -- Paula Danziger
Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that. -- Donald Norman
I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like. -- Gail Simmons
I think you need to understand games to write them. There's a learning curve, just like there's a learning curve in anything. It's not precisely the same as film or television, but you're using the same muscles. -- Bruce Feirstein
Write every day. Make writing a part of your life, but also don't be afraid of learning from others because I think you can. I still try to think of myself as a beginner because that way I can keep on learning. -- Kimberly Willis Holt
Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest. -- Bret Lott
Don't write about your most emotionally charged moment as a learning thing. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I think I've just gotten better at learning how to write a song. -- Jonny Lang
If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write. -- Lorrie Moore
A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one. -- Robert M. Hutchins
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
Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life. -- Nadine Gordimer
Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing. -- S. I. Hayakawa
I can put some chords together and maybe write a song, but I'm learning every day. And that's the fun part. -- Bruno Mars
Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument. -- J. B. Priestley
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Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write - the ultimate learning experience. -- Karen Traviss
I'm still learning so much with every play I write. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts. I think you have to be ruthless. -- Stephen Karam
Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings. -- David Ives
Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains. -- Bill Gates
Write hand-written notes daily and commit to supporting the growth and self-esteem of children, because it makes such a big difference in terms of their capacity for learning. -- Debra Messing
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

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