If you’re a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too.
– Tim Maleeny
Tag: read
Quotable 473
Don’t classify me, read me. I’m a writer, not a genre.
– Carlos Fuentes
Quotable 461
People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them.
– Flannery O’Connor
haiku 572
Mother’s Day –
she can’t
read her cards
Quotable 361
Read like mad. But try to do it analytically – which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel is, the less conscious you will be of its devices. It’s worth trying to figure those devices out, however: they might come in useful in your own work.
– Sarah Waters
Quotable 288
Little has happened in my life, but I have read a great deal.
– Jorge Luis Borges
Quotable 270
Read, and above all reread. When you read, you get the great pleasure of discovering what happened. When you reread, you get the great pleasure of knowing where the author’s going and seeing how he goes about getting there – and that’s learning creative writing.
– Shelby Foote
Quotable 252
If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
– Toni Morrison
Quotable 215
We write by the light of every story we have ever read.
– Richard Peck
Quotable 211
I’m just writing a story that I want to read.
– Jean Marie Auel