Assimilation Quote by Allan W. Eckert

If you would be a writer, first be a reader

— Allan W. Eckert

To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again - gradually you begin to think like…

— Avi

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

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

— Ayn Rand

Before you can become a writer, you have to be a reader, and a reader of everything, at that. To the best of my…

— Terry Pratchett

To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic…

— Tobias Wolff

“READ. You have no business wanting to be a writer unless you are a reader. You should read fantasies and essays, biographies and poetry,…

— Kate DiCamillo

“To become a writer a person must read constantly, the more varied the writers and their material then all the better. One must also…

— Andrew James Pritchard

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

— Avi

“I didn’t actually have to write a thing because the act of reading was my writing. I thought of myself as a writer for…

— E.L. Doctorow

Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer.

— John O'Hara

“The best thing about being a writer is the ability to live vicariously through your own imagination, with no boundaries as to how you…

— Dawn Goodwin