Carmen Agra Deedy Quotes

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story!

I love fiction and read novels constantly.

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

In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.

Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing.

Only a reader can become a writer. Develop a lively intellect and the ability to become interested in anything, no matter how mundane it might seem at first. Look for the story. Develop an eye for detail. Feed your mind and your brain: learn as much as you can about everything you can.

What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses.

Personally, I love books, and I am interested in the notion that stories are told better in different media depending on the story.

I believe that sometimes, when we talk about books, we're talking about the big picture - how they're relevant.

I like to read fiction.

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing his novels has been as good a lesson as any.

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

I used to say, read as much as you can. Now I say, read the best that you can, the stories that resonate with you, the books that are important to you. Try to read, not only as a reader, but also as a writer, to deconstruct how the author is telling his or her story.

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!

I read a lot of fiction.

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

In my early 20s, connecting with fiction was a difficult process. There seemed to be little rhyme or reason to what was meaningful, what convinced, and what made sense.

People who read fiction are different from other people because they are people who are interested in an imagined world.

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously.

I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer, I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where I just felt like they could do in a short story what so many writers needed a whole novel to do, and that was really inspiring to me.