Books Quote by Jean M. Auel

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

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

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

By writing, you learn to write.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Avi

To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest…

— Jean Craighead George

To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again - gradually you begin to think like…

— Avi

To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic…

— Tobias Wolff

If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting…

— Kate DiCamillo

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

I fundamentally believe that no one can teach you how to write - finding out how to write a story is part of the…

— Uzodinma Iweala

You learn to write by writing.

— William Zinsser