Susan Campbell Bartoletti Quotes

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.

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 good writing: by reading.

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 have, it's the only way of learning how to write a story.

You become a great writer by writing.

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

A good writer is always a people watcher.

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

As a writer, I've always been interested in others.

I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful.

You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to war. It's right under your nose.

I think writing and reading are completely synergistic; not necessarily in that one has to be a good reader to be a good writer or vice versa, but that they so inform each other.

When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time.

To some degree, I consider myself a writer, and so I have a strong relationship with literature.

I'm constantly creating and writing.

I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!