Became Quote by Avi

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't…

— Walter Mosley

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

— Garry Disher

My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, the better you get…

— Thomas Steinbeck

I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There…

— Jeanette Winterson

Before you can become a writer, you have to be a reader, and a reader of everything, at that. To the best of my…

— Terry Pratchett

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I…

— Jami Attenberg

We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate…

— Elizabeth Berg

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you…

— Jean M. Auel

I am not a writer except when I write.

— Juan Carlos Onetti

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…

— Linda Sue Park

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

— Avi