Daniel Pinkwater Quotes

All experience helps when you write.

I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.

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

I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.

I starting writing when I was about 13 or 14 years old.

I was always writing, since I was, like, 12.

I've been writing since I was 12 years old.

I've always been writing.

I've been writing since I was maybe seven.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

Writing a novel - unlike operating a piece of heavy machinery, say, or cooking a chicken - is not a skill that can be taught. There is no standard way of doing it, just as there is no means of telling, while you're doing it, whether you're doing it well or badly. And merely because you've done it well once doesn't mean you can do it well again.

To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

I enjoy writing.

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.

Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.

I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

I never know how to give advice to a writer because there's so much you could say, and it's hard to translate your own experience. But of course, I always try. The main thing that I usually end up saying is to read a lot. To read a great deal and to learn from that.