“It was from just a few sentences that a writer learned anything from another writer.”
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“Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.”
“I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.”
“A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off”
“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.”
“Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.”