You learn to write by writing. It’s a truism, but what makes it a truism is that it’s true. The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to pr… - William Zinsser

The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis.

You learn to write by writing.

The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do.

I remember the language of the people I grew up with. Language was so important to them. All that power was in it. And grace and metaphor. Some of it was very formal and Biblical, because the habit is that when you have something important to say you go into parable, if you’re from Africa, or you go into another level of language. I wanted to use language that way, because my feeling was that a black novel was not black because I wrote it, or because there were black people in it, or because it was about black things. It was the style. It had a certain style. It was inevitable. I couldn’t describe it, but I could produce it.

Don't be kind of bold. Be bold.