645 quotes found
“Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.”
“Oh, Sweetie. No one ever gets through their TBR list. For every book you finish, you'll add five more. That's just the way it works.”
“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
“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 writ...”
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- theyll go through anything. You read and youre pierced.”
“A word after a word after a word is power.”
“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.”
“A short story is a different thing altogether a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
“I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent an...”
“A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.”
“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.”
“I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three things that are important: First, if you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable ...”
“The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.”
“As a child, I read because booksviolent and not, blasphemous and not, terrifying and notwere the most loving and trustworthy things in my life. I read widely, and loved plenty of the classics so, y...”
“You do what you were made to do. Some of us were made to read and write. Thanks be to God.”
“The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.”
“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 ...”
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“I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.”
“A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or the dying. But worse was to come. For once the disease of reading has laid hold upon t...”
