Becoming Quote by Dan Chaon

Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

I know a lot of writers who tell me they 'always' knew how to read. They can't remember a time before reading. And those…

— Kameron Hurley

Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks than from…

— John Dufresne

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

— Zadie Smith

I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's the way…

— George R. R. Martin

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we…

— John Green

I read continually and don't understand writers who say they don't read while working on a book. For a start, a book takes me…

— Paul Lynch

I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what we do.…

— Alexandra Fuller

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

— Mohsin Hamid

Reading for writers is like training for athletes.

— Linda Sue Park

Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time.

— Simon Mawer

The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves

— John Green