Attention Quote by David Sedaris

There is a reason there is no such thing as a folk writer. But to be a writer you have learn what it takes…

— David Sedaris

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

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

No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age,…

— Rebecca Solnit

Reading was really my only training in fiction writing. I never took a class or read a book on how to write. I just…

— Stephenie Meyer

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

— Jon Krakauer

Id always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in…

— Donald Ray Pollock

No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly…

— Cynthia Ozick

The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is…

— George R. R. Martin

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…

— John Green

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer…

— Khaled Hosseini

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than a writer,…

— Helen Oyeyemi