Paul Muldoon Quotes

I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.

Reading taught me how to write.

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

Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.

I think writing and reading are completely synergistic; not necessarily in that one has to be a good reader to be a good writer or vice versa, but that they so inform each other.

The best way to learn to write is to read in the genre you might be interested in; then, you need to actually sit down and write. In a lot of cases, the first book you write will not get published. Do not get hung up on that. Start a second book.

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.

…she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

People do write books.

I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.

You become a great writer by writing.

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

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching.

I have to go make books. Sorry about that.

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.

There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.

Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.

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

There's something magical about the idea that you can write something down and someone else can read it. I'm still mildly agog about that.

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.