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Goodreads asked Richard Gilbert:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Richard Gilbert Read and write. That's all there is. Classes, including online ones, can help educate and fire you up. All writers are pretty much highly educated, whether that's signified by diplomas or books read or continuing studies classes or writers' groups—or most likely by some combination.

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