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- The most important thing is you can't write what you wouldn't read for pleasure. It's a mistake to analyze the market thinking you can write…
- Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and…
- A good story's like a door, and you can go through it whenever you need to. After you've read it or seen it or heard…
- I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.
- I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.
- I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.
- I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's…
- ...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.
- You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.
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