Emma Walton Hamilton Quotes

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.

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

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.

We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate good writing: by reading.

The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during my time at Columbia remains - but learning how to really deconstruct a work of fiction - that, of course, is a permanent part of me now.

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.

You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.

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

I've always been a reader and a writer.

I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful.

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

I love reading almost as much as I love writing.

What I realized is that my interest in literature has more deeply structured my practice than I thought.

The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

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 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.

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.

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'm not a writer. I like being a reader.

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

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

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.