Books Quote by Alan Lightman

I think that if you are a serious writer, you are almost obligated to provide the intelligent average reader with something that they can…

— Michel Faber

Some people are widely read. I'm thinly read.

— Eddie Izzard

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just…

— Terry Pratchett

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

— Garry Disher

Good readers make much out of little.

— Irving Howe

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the…

— Paul Theroux

Those who write clearly have readers.

— Albert Camus

Writing is something I take very seriously.

— Melody Gardot

There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

— Anonymous

Not writing is as important as writing - go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.

— Veronica Roth

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

— Sylvia Day