Goodreads asked Martin Shone:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Martin Shone Read, and not only the genre in which you wish to write, read it all. If, for example, you want to write romance do not only read romances because if you do your mind will become sodden with romance and therefore so will your writing. Read a wide variety, read non-fiction, read fiction, read poetry, read it all, and out of all this you will have a bank of memory waiting to flourish upon your pages. Read and so write the impossible because it will become possible through all which you have devoured. And don't forget, relax and enjoy!

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