W. P. Kinsella Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

I've always been a reader and a writer.

Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel is, the less conscious you will be of its devices. It's worth trying to figure those devices out, however: they might come in useful in your own work.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

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.

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

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.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

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

I'm not a writer. I like being a reader.

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

Writing was something I have always been interested in. I've grown up in a household full of books, with both my parents English teachers and very booky.

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

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.

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.

For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

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