Robin McKinley Quotes

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

I worked with several writers at the University of Michigan: Nicholas Delbanco, Peter Ho Davies, Eileen Pollack, Laura Kasischke, and Thomas Lynch, who told me the same thing over and over again: Persist. Read, write, and improve: tell your stories.

What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

This is a privilege, what we get to do. To be able to tell stories. It's a luxury. So I have a business-like approach to it, the same way I had with football.

My first love was reading, which inspired me to write.

I'll probably be writing as long as I'm breathing.

The only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

I only work on my books at nights and at weekends. It is really just like a hobby.

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

People do write books.

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

You become a great writer by writing.

When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

Acting is my first focus, but at the core, I'm a storyteller, and however that comes out is fine with me.

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 always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

I was so in love with books from as early as I remember that it seemed a natural step to want to create them. And so I just wanted to be a writer from a very young age. And I think that the lies were just a natural side effect of me wanting to tell stories and write them down.

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.