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title: "19 Read Writer Quotes by 19 authors"
description: "Browse 19 Read Writer quotes by 19 authors. Discover the best Read Writer sayings and thoughts."
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> [I try to read as a reader and also read as a writer. I mean, they're not so different.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-young/i-try-to-read-as-a-reader-and-also-read-as-a-writer-i-mean-they-re/)

[Kevin Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-young/)

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> [A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mignon-mclaughlin/a-critic-can-only-review-the-book-he-has-read-not-the-one-which-the/)

[Mignon McLaughlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mignon-mclaughlin/)

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> [I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-leibovich/i-like-to-be-read-that-s-most-of-what-any-writer-could-want/)

[Mark Leibovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-leibovich/)

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> [If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/epictetus/if-you-would-be-a-reader-read-if-a-writer-write/)

[Epictetus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/epictetus/)

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> [Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlos-fuentes/don-t-classify-me-read-me-i-m-a-writer-not-a-genre/)

[Carlos Fuentes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlos-fuentes/)

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> [To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-gide/to-read-a-writer-is-for-me-not-merely-to-get-an-idea-of-what-he-says/)

[Andre Gide](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-gide/)

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> [Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-miller/playwriting-is-an-oral-art-it-s-not-an-art-of-a-writer-expecting-to/)

[Arthur Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-miller/)

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> [I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karin-slaughter/i-always-try-to-block-out-an-hour-or-so-a-day-to-read-being-a-writer/)

[Karin Slaughter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karin-slaughter/)

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> [I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/i-don-t-read-other-writers-because-i-m-writing-all-the-time-it-s-too/)

[Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/)

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> [Read a lot. But read as a writer, to see how other writers are doing it. And make your knowledge of literature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodora-goss/read-a-lot-but-read-as-a-writer-to-see-how-other-writers-are-doing-it/)

[Theodora Goss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodora-goss/)

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> [It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, 'Read,' but a writer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/it-s-not-possible-to-advise-a-young-writer-because-every-young-writer/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

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> [“It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richelle-e-goodrich/it-is-said-that-you-can-t-write-without-a-reader-the-opposite-holds/)

[Richelle E. Goodrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richelle-e-goodrich/)

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> [ Few \[books\] get translated and the ones that do have trouble making it into the mainstream. It's more likely that Americans will… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laila-lalami/few-books-get-translated-and-the-ones-that-do-have-trouble-making-it/)

[Laila Lalami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laila-lalami/)

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> [If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-busch/if-a-writer-is-honest-if-what-is-at-stake-for-him-can-seem-to-matter/)

[Frederick Busch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-busch/)

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> [When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/when-you-find-a-writer-who-really-is-saying-something-to-you-read/)

[Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/)

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> [A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/a-well-read-writer-with-good-taste-is-one-who-has-the-command-of-the/)

[Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/)

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> [“I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three things that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/i-have-advice-for-people-who-want-to-write-i-don-t-care-whether-they/)

[Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/)

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> [To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francine-prose/to-be-truthful-some-writers-stop-you-dead-in-your-tracks-by-making/)

[Francine Prose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francine-prose/)

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> [“A Book I Can Put Down I’m halfway through and I’ve gotten used to the way it wants to be read. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonia-clark/a-book-i-can-put-down-i-m-halfway-through-and-i-ve-gotten-used-to-the/)

[Antonia Clark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonia-clark/)

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                        "text": "To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering light. Each of us will meet a different harbinger of personal failure, some innocent genius chosen by us for reasons having to do with what we see as our own inadequacies. The only remedy to this I have found is to read a writer whose work is entirely different from another, though not necessarily more like your own—a difference that will remind you of how many rooms there are in the house of art.",
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                        "text": "“A Book I Can Put Down I’m halfway through and I’ve gotten used to the way it wants to be read. This writer wants to spoon it up, wants to watch me swallow it. This writer makes a point of good deeds, clean living, god and country, when what I want is sin and shame, the rusty metal edge of cruelty, varieties of pain, his mother still crying years later, just like mine. I want a writer who’s given up on the moral of the story, one who’ll hand me a knife and sit back to see what I do with it. (Published in Anderbo )”",
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