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Horror writers shouldn't play nice. Disturb & unnerve your reader. Make them uncomfortable, but not so much they stop reading. — Pamela Morris

Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer. — Avi

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

Eating and sleeping are the two periods in your life where writers get a pass for not reading. Check that.
Only sleeping. — Ted Bell

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

I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers. — Lauren Mayberry

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

Never give up, Never surrender!!!!!
If you think you can't, then you must, if you must, then you can..Tony Robbins — Paula V. Hardin

I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality. — Gore Vidal

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer. — Verlyn Klinkenborg

When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound. — Paul Auster

Reading is like magic--I think I've made my case. Without the gift of words, this world's a crazy place! — Denise Walter McConduit

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

Above all things
read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied. — Ngaio Marsh

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

Reading opens up other pockets of the mind. — A.D. Posey

Reading sparks writing. — A.D. Posey

The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you. — A.K. Kuykendall

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

Writing in the dark is hard, but you have to light your own candle and do it anyway. — A.D. Posey

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

A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy. — Roberto Bolano

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

A book is a place where my reality, escapism, hope, despair, love and death lie. — Nikita Dudani

Read, mediate and pray. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I'm there. — Lori Lesko

when you read once, you get the understanding ; when you read twice, you get the second understanding. Don't just read, read! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing. — Richard Ford

Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?"

"My favorite character died. — Joyce Rachelle

Linda Heavner Gerald was selected as Winner in 50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading — Linda Heavner Gerald

Reading is sexy. Women who read are suspect. Women who write dangerous. — Chloe Thurlow

If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac. — Tiffany Madison

I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check. — Kurt Vonnegut

There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities. — Carla H. Krueger

Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down. — Carla H. Krueger

A lot of writers dwell on their relationships with their mothers, but only a few are worth reading. — Kathryn Harrison

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money. — Thomas C. Foster

The more you read, the more you write, and the more you free yourself to do so, the better writer you will become. — A.D. Posey

To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Two excellent crime fiction writers I'm currently reading...

Laura Wilson and Andrew Taylor — Roger Boutwell

One must read all writers twice
the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked. — Karl Kraus

You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work. — Don Roff

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

Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me. — Betsy Byars

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers. — Steven Spielberg

How you feel after reading something indicates not what you've read but where you are at. — A.D. Posey

Our constant desire to genre-label cripples new writers. Let them experiment, explore and surprise. — Carla H. Krueger

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read. — Jorge Luis Borges

You will always find me writing and reading as long as I have the breath of life within me. — K.D. Green

The man is in his work,read it if you want to know about him. — R.M. Engelhardt

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When entering a library, I never forget to bow down! — Avijeet Das

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard. — Susie Bright

I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer. — Alan Furst

If words come alive on the page, the writer succeeds in connecting to the reader. — Aman Jassal

There's a side to all writers that loves nothing better than a book, a big chair, a window. — Gillian Clarke

People who don't read fiction are scared of what's inside their own heads. — Carla H. Krueger

Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none. — Jules Renard 1890

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

Inspiration for what we produce comes from reading, observing the world of humans around us and also the animal kingdom — Walt Disney Company

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

A writer's uniqueness glows and transforms the heart and the soul of a reader. — A.D. Posey

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children. — Elizabeth Bowen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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