I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. Toni Morrison
There is no friend as loyal as a book. Ernest Hemingway
The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul — books. Emily Dickinson
The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write. Ernest Gaines
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. Stephen King
If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time – or the tools – to write. Simple as that. Stephen King
I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you’re trying to be a writer because it’s the only apprenticeship we have, it’s the only way of learning how to write a story. John Green
Reading is important because, if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything. Tomie dePaola
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. Ursula K. Le Guin
You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. Annie Proulx
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.
Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window. William Faulkner
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers. Ray Bradbury
The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book. Samuel Johnson
When I graduated from high school I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years. Ray Bradbury
Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river. Lisa See
