Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader…

“A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer.”

— Anthony Liccione

An active and creative reader is a re-reader.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I am a reader. A reader isn’t someone who just likes to read, but someone who feels such a strong attachment to a book…

— Anonymous

My mother wanted me to be a reader. She was a reader. Even though she had an 11th-grade education, she was curious about all…

— Joe R. Lansdale

“Nobody but a reader becomes a writer.”

— Richard Peck

It's interesting when you're doing signing sessions with other writers and you look at the queues at each table and you can see definite…

— Martin Amis

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

— Cassandra Clare

My own experience as a reader and writer has been that the more I read, and the more I live, the more different "types"…

— Matthew Zapruder

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

— Julian Barnes

I grew up loving books and stories. Reading became my favourite pastime, and you have to be a reader before you can be a…

— Sandra Brown

“I didn’t actually have to write a thing because the act of reading was my writing. I thought of myself as a writer for…

— E.L. Doctorow

I've always been a reader and a writer.

— Laini Taylor

“I was thinking the other day about the idea that you have a reader and a writer, and they’re different and they’re flawed and…

— George Saunders

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the…

— Marcel Proust

There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.

— Jasper Fforde