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Writing can't be taught.

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

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.

Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

Writing teaches writing.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

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.