Michael Cadnum Quotes

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

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, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

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

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from us. What makes us love a subject like English is when we learn all these fantastic stories. Feeding the imagination is what makes a subject come alive.

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

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

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

I think writing and reading are completely synergistic; not necessarily in that one has to be a good reader to be a good writer or vice versa, but that they so inform each other.

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have, it's the only way of learning how to write a story.

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited to study journalism in college. I love editorials and documentaries. All of that came from being given the opportunity to lose myself in good writing when I was a kid.

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 read part of it all the way through.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

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.

If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

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

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.

When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was not exactly true. I want other kids to read and write more all over the world, because it helps them to understand things better.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.