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
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
- Ernest Hemingway
Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.
- Julia Quinn
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 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
It's difficult to teach how to write novels, but teaching swimming is just as hard.
- Haruki Murakami
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
I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
- Ray Bradbury
I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.
- Louis L Amour
It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.
- Ally Condie
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
I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.'
Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud.
'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.
- Roald Dahl
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
Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.
- Anita Desai
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
No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.
- Alice Hoffman
I've always said it took me 20 years to find out how to write a song in 20 minutes.
- Bart Howard
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
Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.
- Charlie Kaufman
Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator.
- Nataly Kelly
My mother taught me how to write.
- Kesha
I can't read, I don't know how to write, my whole life has been one big fight.
- Albert King
How to Write a Poem
Catch the air
around the butterfly.
- Katerina Stoykova Klemer
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
My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.
- Harry Mathews
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
It's been a fascinating thing because we didn't really know how to write when we started South Park at all. It's been like, we've just sort of grown up a bit and it's amazing to just see how, if you take Butters and Cartman and put them in any scene, it works.
- Trey Parker
Scott Adams: From him, I learned how to write a three-panel comic. Probably the best pure writer on the comics page.
- Stephan Pastis
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
Where are the reporters of yesteryear?' he muttered, 'the nail biting, acerbic, alcoholic nighthawk bastards who truly knew how to write?
- Annie Proulx
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
- Anne Rice
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
The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.
- James Rollins
I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.
- David O Russell
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
For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.
- Wallace Shawn
As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!
- Jacqueline Susann
You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.
- Gene Wolfe
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
- Ernest Hemingway
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
- Ernest Hemingway
Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.
- Julia Quinn
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 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
It's difficult to teach how to write novels, but teaching swimming is just as hard.
- Haruki Murakami
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
I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
- Ray Bradbury
I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.
- Louis L Amour
It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.
- Ally Condie
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
I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.'
Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud.
'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.
- Roald Dahl
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
Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.
- Anita Desai
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
No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.
- Alice Hoffman
I've always said it took me 20 years to find out how to write a song in 20 minutes.
- Bart Howard
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
Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.
- Charlie Kaufman
Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator.
- Nataly Kelly
My mother taught me how to write.
- Kesha
I can't read, I don't know how to write, my whole life has been one big fight.
- Albert King
How to Write a Poem
Catch the air
around the butterfly.
- Katerina Stoykova Klemer
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
My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.
- Harry Mathews
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
It's been a fascinating thing because we didn't really know how to write when we started South Park at all. It's been like, we've just sort of grown up a bit and it's amazing to just see how, if you take Butters and Cartman and put them in any scene, it works.
- Trey Parker
Scott Adams: From him, I learned how to write a three-panel comic. Probably the best pure writer on the comics page.
- Stephan Pastis
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
Where are the reporters of yesteryear?' he muttered, 'the nail biting, acerbic, alcoholic nighthawk bastards who truly knew how to write?
- Annie Proulx
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
- Anne Rice
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
The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.
- James Rollins
I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.
- David O Russell
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
For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.
- Wallace Shawn
As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!
- Jacqueline Susann
You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.
- Gene Wolfe
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
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