Read, and above all reread. When you read, you get the great pleasure of discovering what happened. When you reread, you get the great pleasure of knowing where the author’s going and seeing how he goes about getting there – and that’s learning creative writing.
– Shelby Foote
Tag: learning
Quotable 199
Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.
– J. B. Priestley
Quotable 181
Nothing will teach you how to write more than writing. I’m still learning with every book.
– Charlaine Harris
Quotable 58
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
– Theodor Seuss Geisel
Quotable 39
Creativity doesn’t come from learning; it comes from doing.
– Richard R. Ernst