Writing Skills Quotes

• The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.

  William Jackson

  Writing, School, Skills

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• I found it more pleasurable to write something, sing a melody over it. At a very young age, I kind of honed my writing skills, I guess.

  DJ Ashba

  Writing, Skills, Age

  "Guns N' Roses DJ Ashba: On Overcoming Obstacles with a Guitar". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual course in which you learn writing skills. This support group is extremely important because there is something very lonely about writing.

  Etgar Keret

  Lonely, Writing, Class

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• I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Book, Writing, College

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better as the class progresses.

  James Thayer

  Writing, Class, Skills

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• Improve writing skills: 1. Keep paragraphs short. 2. Use bold and CAPS to make points. 3. Start with a question or short statement. 4. Give me meat in the middle. All meat. 5. Make me smile, think, or act at the end.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Writing, Thinking, Skills

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• Well, I definitely have an artistic side to me as well. I write, I act, I draw. With that artistic mind I have, a lot of doors have opened for me. I can try to pursue, like - if it's something using my writing skills, maybe a book. Or maybe if it's my drawing skills, some clothing designs.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  Book, Writing, Doors

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• Many times, what people call 'writer's block' is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing skill is not up to the task of putting that idea down on paper. I think that learning the craft of writing is critical.

  Pearl Cleage

  Block, Writing, Thinking

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• I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.

  Jeremy Lin

  Reading, Writing, Class

  Interview With Eric Guilleminault, www.nbadraft.net. June 16, 2010.

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• I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.

  Steve Martin

  Writing, Skills, Credit

  "Actor-musician Steve Martin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 22, 2012.

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• A. Douglas Stone, a physicist who has spent his life using quantum mechanics to explore striking new phenomena, has turned his considerable writing skills to thinking about Einstein and the quantum. What he finds and makes broadly understandable are the riches of Einstein's thinking not about relativity, not about his arguments with Bohr, but about Einstein's deep insights into the quantum world, insights that Stone shows speak to us now with all the vividness and depth they had a century ago. This is a fascinating book, lively, engaging, and strong in physical intuition.

  Peter Galison

  Strong, Book, Writing

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• The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation of writing skills and reading comprehension; an alarming increase of packaged language (cliches used in speeches, canned messages); and a general tendency to substitute visual media (especially television and video) for written language.

  Mihai Nadin

  Reading, Writing, Media

  Mihai Nadin (1997). “The Civilization of Illiteracy”, p.17, Dresden University Press

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• I ain't no author, man . . . my writing skills are not of "New York Times" best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.

  Steve Harvey

  New York, Believe, Writing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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