Kimberly Willis Holt Quotes

What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but to actually want to sit down and write. I'm lucky I learned that habit a really long time ago. I credit my mother with that. She was an English teacher, but she was a writer.

I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.

I always wrote. I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the '80s developing my craft as a writer.

I didn't start really focusing on writing until I was 24.

Read as much as possible, especially the work of writers who most deeply affect you. Make those writers your family. Never wait for inspiration to strike before getting to work; be disciplined and form the habit of writing every day.

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

I'd love to maybe try writing. I don't know if I'd publish anything, but as a hobby, it's really nice. I bought a typewriter, and I really like to write on the typewriter sometimes. It's a fun little hobby.

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

I write - and then I write some more.

I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

The only real advice you can give anyone is to keep writing.

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

I write constantly about everything.

And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.

I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.

I have a writing addiction.

You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It's really important to start writing young.