William Faulkner Quotes

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

Reading taught me how to write.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was not exactly true. I want other kids to read and write more all over the world, because it helps them to understand things better.

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.

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

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

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.

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

Reading is No. 1 - I have to read, or I can't write.

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.

Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything.

I always say that, to me, it starts with reading. This is something I tell high school kids, college kids, people trying to get into the business, that it's just so much about reading. Read, read, read. So much of everything else falls into place when you just do a ton of reading.

If we want to write, it makes sense to read—and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we would want to visit rose gardens and try to see them the way that a rose gardener would.

Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

You become a great writer by writing.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of someone else's eyes. You also learn from critiquing other writers' 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.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

I started writing as soon as I started reading.