“If people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines that I could write stories just as rotten.”
“I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!”
“But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on. ”
“Before I published any of my own stories, I read a great many stories by people as passionate about writing as I was, and I learned something from everyone I read -- something most important what I should not try to write.”
“I'd been writing for as long as I could remember, but once I read Otherworld, I'd stopped writing original stories to focus on fan fiction. It was such a rich, exciting world that I couldn't think of writing anything else.”
“Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it.”