I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.
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Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
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.
People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.
I never think that any writer can teach someone how to write.
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.
Writing teaches writing.
I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to 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.
Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.
Writing can't be taught.
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