S. E. Hinton Quotes

Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

What I love about research is when I'm having a bad day and I can't write, I'll just research some more, I'll learn some more and I'll have better command of the world of the film.

It’s not just the adage ‘write what you know,’ it’s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you’ve collected up to now to help you dive into the things you don’t know.

Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things others do.

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

Reading is No. 1 - I have to read, or I can't write.

I kind of do all of this writing as a way of thinking and learning. I'm sure it's similar to being a journalist: You get to learn, and that's the greatest kind of job.

I don't know what else teaches you as much as writing. Perhaps reading. So if I don't have one or the other in the course of the day, I feel old.

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.

There is no such thing as writer's block. There is only not enough information. If you can't write, learn something.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

Reading taught me how to write.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

On a good day I write, all day.

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

Each book first begins with a little idea.

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 love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

The books I read, if they intrude on my writing, do so as weather will pass through and touch a landscape - affecting it, yes, but only now and then leaving a permanent mark.