Matthew Tobin Anderson Quotes

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

And that's what I've learned too: writing is key.

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

I do have the feeling that other writers can't help you with writing. I've gone to writers' conferences and writers' sessions and writers' clinics, and the more I see of them, the more I'm sure it's the wrong direction. It isn't the place where you learn to write.

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

I write constantly about everything.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

I never have found out all I want to know about writing and realize I never will.

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

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.

I've learned never to try and force words to come.

If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.

I try to read writers who are better than me because it inspires me to be better.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes and ears open. Pay attention to the different ways people speak. Read lots of different kinds of books. And then try writing in different voices and styles - don't be afraid to experiment.

My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing.

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.