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

I never think that any writer can teach someone how to write.

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

I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view.

Writing is difficult all the time; the thing is to learn something every day.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.

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.