Sarah Waters Quotes

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

I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love.

Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.

I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read.

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

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

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.

Only a reader can become a writer. Develop a lively intellect and the ability to become interested in anything, no matter how mundane it might seem at first. Look for the story. Develop an eye for detail. Feed your mind and your brain: learn as much as you can about everything you can.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could find.

I want to write books.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

People do write books.

As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.

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.

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

I love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.

I just want to sit in my room and write books.

Reading taught me how to write.

Sometimes I write less than I'd like but do research. Other times, editor's notes or a copy-edited manuscript or page proofs for a forthcoming novel mean that I need to put my attentions elsewhere for a day or two, but I always come back to writing.

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