Terry Pratchett Quotes

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

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

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

I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

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

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

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.

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

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

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.

Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer.

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.

I'm constantly creating and writing.

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.

I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

You become a great writer by writing.

Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things others do.

I love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.

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

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.