I think you learn how to write by reading an enormous…

You might learn as much about how to write by reading Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler, Saul Bellow, Paul Muldoon or a hundred…

— David Denby

I did a couple of writing seminars in Canada with high school kids. These were the bright kids; they all have computers, but they…

— Stephen King

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

— Justin Cronin

One of the things about the arts that is so important is that in the arts you discover the only way to learn how…

— David McCullough

“The only way you learn to write is by reading and studying the kind of thing you would like to write — and by writing.”

— Barbara Abercrombie

I'm afraid I wasn't much of a student, but my casual reading was enormous.

— Conrad Aiken

At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not…

— Jennifer Egan

I learned to write from reading. I had no writing classes. It's part of my thinking as the writer-author, reading, but then I also…

— Lynne Tillman

I don't see how you can write well if you're not reading well at the same time. I think the only risk is reading…

— Julia Glass

I write as if I'm someone reading the book - often people ask if I write one strand first and then go back and…

— Ruth Ware

It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

— Steven Wright

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.

— Jennifer Egan