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You enter a book as if you are setting out on a journey and, if it is a good book, you will be a different person when you reach the end. — Chloe Thurlow

All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose. — James Agate

A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin. — Victor J. Banis

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. ( ... )
A good novel editor is invisible. — Terri Windling

How do you crush spirit? You take out all the good. — S.A. Tawks

The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book. — A.D. Posey

Good reading makes for damn hard writing. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget. — Lauren Hammond

This didn't sound good. It sounded like the optimism was escaping from him. — S.A. Tawks

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth. — Criss Jami

It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings. — Ramsay MacMullen

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems. — Edward Hirsch

Maybe we should all just shut up and read a good book. — Mary Sisney

That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading. — William Faulkner

Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good. — William Zinsser

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839] — Edgar Allan Poe

There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising. — Robert Lane Greene

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading. — Charles Kuralt

For me, reading has to be pleasurable. Otherwise, I'm ditching the book and turning on Netflix. There's way too much good TV right now to write dull. — Christopher Noxon

Good writing ain't necessarily good reading. — Ken Kesey

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading. — Jean De La Bruyere

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying, or meditating, or endeavoring something for the public good. — Thomas A Kempis

A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader. — W.J. Raymond

Above all, have a good time. If you aren't enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it. — Tom Robbins

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly. — Jen Knox

So much of what we read nowadays is there one moment and gone the next. When you read something good, cherish it. — Carla H. Krueger

Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. — Kira Hawke

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. — Vladimir Nabokov

Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels. — Jennifer Echols

Reading a good book is an escape to an alternative life, writing a good book is the closest thing to actually living that life. — Chas Scott

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing. — Patricia Polacco

We can read a good spiritual book in search of information or in search of God. We will find only what we're looking for. — Ron Brackin

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit. — David Sedaris

Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.
Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged. — Ernest Hemingway,

Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement. — Sara Sheridan