Reading For Writers Quotes

#1. Reading for writers is like training for athletes.

Linda Sue Park

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

Roger Zelazny

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons.

Stephen King

#6. Salter is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure. He is among the very few North American writers all of whose work I want to read, whose as-yet-unpublished books I wait for impatiently.

Susan Sontag

#7. 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

#8. Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.

Thomas C. Foster

#9. Look for your heros in the books people write, not in the people who write books.

Ozzie Cheek

#10. Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists ... understand that successful artistic creativity depends upon extensive visual exposure.

Paul Laseau

#11. Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest your readers. What merely interests you is sure to bore them. (from Workbook)

Steven Heighton

#12. 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

#13. Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth.

Dr. Seuss

#14. Reading it now for the seventh or eighth time, I am more convinced than ever not merely that The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald's masterwork but that it is the American masterwork, the finest work of fiction by any of this country's writers.

Jonathan Yardley

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

Jen Selinsky

#16. The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.

A.K. Kuykendall

#17. When entering a library, I never forget to bow down!

Avijeet Das

#18. My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call.

A.K. Kuykendall

#19. Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there will always be great writers.

Ruth Ozeki

#20. For some reason, when people meet me and find out I'm a writer they always ask if I write children's books. Um ... please don't let your kids read my books. Well, unless your kids are in their 30s or something ... then yeah, they're old enough. LOL

Michelle M. Pillow

#21. The original sense of the word 'influence' is 'to flow into.' For the most part, these writers that I admire ... their style flows into me without my intervention, which is what explains the broad range of writers who I've been compared with; it reflects my reading.

Teju Cole

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

Ted Bell

#23. People who don't read fiction are scared of what's inside their own heads.

Carla H. Krueger

#24. There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't.

Carla H. Krueger

#25. Inspiration for what we produce comes from reading, observing the world of humans around us and also the animal kingdom

Walt Disney Company

#26. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Just won my first writing award, thanks to you. To all who took the time to vote for me in 50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading, many thanks.

Linda Heavner Gerald

#27. The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book.

A.D. Posey

#28. There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.

Carla H. Krueger

#29. I have started a new blog W.A.R.(Writers Amongst Readers) for all those writing or reading books. Quotes, excerpts, comments from the world's greatest writers. See robinhawdonblog

Robin Hawdon

#30. I think I have a pretty goofy profile for a writer. It seems to me most writers were reading 'Little Women' when they were 6 months old. At the age of a lot of my readers, I wanted to be a major league baseball player. I didn't read much.

Jerry Spinelli

#31. Read different to think differently; world is already into rat race.

Aman Jassal

#32. Reading had always been another world for him. Not an escape, since he rarely sought escape ... writers had to confront the world if they were going to observe it accurately ... but another world nonetheless. One filled with powerful voices relaying even more powerful thoughts.

Dan Simmons

#33. 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

#34. Our constant desire to genre-label cripples new writers. Let them experiment, explore and surprise.

Carla H. Krueger

#35. To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana