Shaun Evans Quotes

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

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

I've always been a reader and a writer.

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

I like to read and write and take pictures and bike.

I love to read, and I've always loved to write.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

You can't write if you don't read.

Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

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

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

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

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.

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.

To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what we do. That's what storytellers do.

Reading is No. 1 - I have to read, or I can't write.

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.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

Some people read. I like to put words together.

You really can’t write unless you read. You have to know what the game is all about.

Write. Write every day. Write honestly. Write something that doesn’t exist, and you wish did. Read. Learn. Study. Watch people. Listen to what they say, listen to how they say it and listen to what they do not say. Surprise yourself. Scare yourself.

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.