Quotes on Writers Reading

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

Once upon a time' lasts forever.

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

The man who never reads lives only one.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.