It's just the garbage in/garbage out trick. If you're not…

“Trying to write without reading is like venturing out to sea all by yourself in a small boat: lonely and dangerous. Wouldn't you rather…

— Téa Obreht

I am so weak that I can hardly write, I cannot read my Bible, I cannot even pray, I can only lie still in…

— Hudson Taylor

I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.

— Raine Maida

I try to keep a steady pace with my writing. I have found that super-productive days are usually followed by two and even three…

— Scott Spencer

“Why just read the writing? Write the reading!”

— Jesse B. Booth

“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

“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 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

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

— Justin Cronin

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