Books Quote by Elizabeth Berg

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

You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to…

— Robert Caro

Writing is a bit like swimming. You learn writing by doing it and you learn swimming by doing it. Nobody learns how to swim…

— Robert Munsch

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

“If you want to become a better writer, you have to write. But you also have to read. One of the things I love…

— Kami Garcia

The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how…

— Rick Yancey

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

— Zadie Smith

Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how…

— Avi

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

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

— Jeffery Deaver

If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of…

— S. E. Hinton

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute…

— Friedrich Nietzsche