Gaston Bachelard Quotes

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

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.

Reading taught me how to write.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.

I remember the absolute joy I used to get out of writing. The purity of imagining something and then putting it down on paper - it was such a pleasure. I read whatever I could get my hands on, from 'Great Expectations' to 'The Thorn Birds.'

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.

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

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

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

I prefer writing originals.

There's something special about writing by hand, writing with a fountain pen, and there's something special about writing into a book, to take a blank book and turn it into an actual book.

I started writing because I found I could spend more time in my own imagination by doing that than I could by reading.

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.

Storytelling is what lights my fire.

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

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

Books, the children of the brain.