Books Quote by Allan W. Eckert Download Open image “If you would be a writer, first be a reader” — Allan W. Eckert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Firsts Ifs Inspirational Reader Would be Writing
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus… — Allan W. Eckert Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Id always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus… — Allan W. Eckert Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image