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People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.

The most important lesson my parents taught me is that writing is a job, one that requires discipline and commitment. Most of the time it's a fun job, a wonderful job, but sometimes it isn't, and those are the days that test you.

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

Writing can't be taught.

No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, don't confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

Writing is a communication.