Jodi Picoult Quotes

Don't talk about writing. Write. Don't show unfinished work to anyone. Don't show finished work to non-writers. Get your opinions, not from friends and family, but by sending your work out to editors. An endless stream of rejection slips means you need to learn more. So learn more.

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.

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

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

You become a great writer by writing.

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

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

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

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

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

I'd like to take a course in writing. I'm not the best writer in the world. I'd like to write more neatly, even though people don't send many handwritten letters these days.

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

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.

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.

Favorite subject? I would have to say creative writing.

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.

Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.

If I did anything 'next', I would do 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.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.

I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read.

Reading taught me how to write.