Maya Angelou Quotes

Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendously easy. I have a hard time comparing my process on different things, but I will say this: The more you write, the better you get at it. That's one of the few things that's markedly true.

I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

With each book, you get better as a writer. There is no back door to the industry. Read in the genre you want to write, as the more you read, the better you will get as an author.

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems.

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.

Everyone has a certain amount of bad writing to get out of their system.

I hadn't meant to do the pattern of publishing short stories and then a novel. I thought, 'I'm a novelist. I know it.' But you have to kind of write a lot of bad novels before you can write a good one, I think, so I did that. But meanwhile, I loved the short stories I did.

If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

Writing will remain a passion project.

I have written my whole life. I remember writing as a small child.

I've always loved writing.

I tell the stories that are of interest to me.

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

All experience helps when you write.

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.

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've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.