Daniel Pinkwater Quotes

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

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

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

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 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 did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.

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.

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

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

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

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

And that's what I've learned too: writing is key.

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

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

I love writing different things.

I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process.

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.

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

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.

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.

I do have the feeling that other writers can't help you with writing. I've gone to writers' conferences and writers' sessions and writers' clinics, and the more I see of them, the more I'm sure it's the wrong direction. It isn't the place where you learn to write.

I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.

Writing is my No. 1 passion.