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If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers. — M.F. Moonzajer

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books. — Francine Prose

Live a life worth reading about. Then write it. — Chris Campanioni

That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us. — Margaret Atwood

Writers aren't born, they're made
from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage. — Alexander Chee

Don't read a book to let the time pass...let the time pass to read a book. — Nicholaa Spencer

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written. — Barbara Kingsolver

Four great adventures; read, learn, write and travel. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Before there were books, we read each other. — Lisa Cron

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels. — Lee Child

Reading sparks writing. — A.D. Posey

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language. — Jamie L. Harding

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

The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story — Brandt Legg

Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading. — Marie Arana

If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words. — Jamie L. Harding

I like to read as much as I can from every genre. That way, I can express my love for all writers. — Jen Selinsky

You know, you hear about these writers reading 'Lolita' at 12. I wanted to be a chemistry teacher. — Susan Barker

When you find yourself writing, reading, or listening the delivery of words when spoken? You know the melody of wordplay. "& I love Wordplay — Elijah Cainaan

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us? — Cornelia Funke

There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't. — Carla H. Krueger

Is it not a pity when some stylistic subtlety is lost without trace by the reader's inattention? — David Richards

We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

A powerful flight of the imagination ... an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence. — Roger Zelazny

Reading for writers is like training for athletes. — Linda Sue Park

Careful writers pick up the nuances of words by focusing on their makeup and their contexts over the course of tens of thousands of hours of reading. — Steven Pinker

I'm not interested in the reviews by critics over the age of 15. — Mark A. Cooper

Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense? — Rudy Francisco

I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment. — Sandra Cisneros

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

Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer. — Amity Gaige

There are more writers who read than readers who write. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know. — Alberto Manguel

There are a lot of writers, but only one YOU. — Pandora Gray

Cry while writing it, and readers will cry while reading it. — A.D. Posey

As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately. — Chang-rae Lee

Reading about another era is like armchair time travel--without the baggage. — CJ Fosdick

To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it. — Alejandro Zambra

The best gift you can give me is a book. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Look for your heros in the books people write, not in the people who write books. — Ozzie Cheek

To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Nothing irritates me so as the flatness of people's imagination. — Henry James

All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers. — Thomas Swick

My only wish is to be buried with my books. — Nikita Dudani

She's always loved writers, even more than the books I think. They're like personal friends to her. — Josephine Hart

Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to. — Eudora Welty

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture. — Sherman Alexie

Read different to think differently; world is already into rat race. — Aman Jassal

Paradise of Lailah Gifty Akita is reading, wondering and writing. — Lailah Gifty Akita