Chance Quote by Robin McKinley

If you want to write, do two things - read lots of books and also, in your own writing, practise. Just write and write…

— Alexander McCall Smith

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

“What I will say is that you have to exercise your writing muscle. Write every day. Get better at it. Read a lot of…

— Melissa de la Cruz

I know that the way to be a really successful writer is to write the same kind of book over and over again. Find…

— Neil Gaiman

Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And…

— Lois Duncan

I think the first thing - if you want to be a writer - the first thing you need to do is write. Which…

— Cheryl Strayed

My advice to writers is: READ! A lot. Then read some more. read, read, read, read!

— Floyd Cooper

My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write…

— Gabriel Fielding

Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

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

If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.

— Caitlin Flanagan

The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get…

— Walter Mosley