My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, the better you get at it. It's like bull-riding. You can't do it once, you know. You've got to practice it and practice it.
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Just writing a lot doesn't necessarily make you a better writer. You have to hear yourself as a writer, and the best way to do that is to read your writing out loud.
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.
You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.
Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.
Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.
Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer.