Reading is No. 1 - I have to read, or I can't write.

“If you can't write, read. If you can't read, walk. Or walk and read, then write.”

— Joyce Rachelle

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to…

— Countee Cullen

I will take classes in Kannada and will learn to read and write it.

— Nikita Thukral

“Hear me now or regret it later: Everything you write must be read aloud. Once all the context items are in place, this is…

— Jiro Adachi

“To strive in life; we must either read or write a story.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest…

— Jean Craighead George

“I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two…

— Philip Roth

“spending time in reading something you want to read is wayyyyy better than wasting time in reading something you should read but you don't…

— Shohana Akter

Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.

— Christian Bauman

“Keep reading. Read during your break at work, before bed, on the bus, in the waiting room. Read at the table, in the lunchroom.…

— Bookeworm94

“A literary expert friend once told me that the way to teach your child to love and respect reading is not to read to…

— Karen Karbo

“But what might be written in the book which had rounded its edges off in his pocket, she did not know. What he thought…

— Virginia Woolf

For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

— Alexander Pope

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where…

— Taylor Swift