Dick Schaap Quotes

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

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

The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.

Read the kinds of things you want to write; read the kinds of things you would never write. Learn something from every writer you read.

I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer.

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

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.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

You have to go where the good writing is.

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.

After so many years, I don't really think writing has to be absolutely new. No. It has to be good work.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

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

All experience helps when you write.

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

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

I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.

There is no motivation higher than being a good writer.

I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading helps train my brain in the right direction.

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