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If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.

Read the kinds of things you want to write; read the kinds of things you would never write. Learn something from every writer you read.

Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of someone else's eyes. You also learn from critiquing other writers' work.

Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing.

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.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.

Writing teaches writing.

I've always felt that writing can be learned but not really taught. The best thing somebody can do for you is to put the right book in your hands at the right time. I grew up in a family where the right book was always being put in my hands.