Huge Quote by David Almond

“Flannery had loved Anne truly. And truthfully. She had seen Anne clearly, not covered with the reflective glitter a person acquires if you view…

— Sylvia Brownrigg

Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.

— Richard Ford

I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human…

— Edward Abbey

It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out…

— Rick Moody

“The scene is a writer's study, shabby, drafty but tax-deductible. The writer is reading the last hundred pages of his work in progress. For…

— Robert Stone

There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.

— Dermot Healy

“Ir you're a writer, reading is part of your job description. ~ Mark Rubinstein”

— Mark Rubinstein

From a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for the deep understanding of the literature; not simply to…

— Jacqueline Woodson

“I don't see the use of reading the same thing over and over again,' said Phillip. 'That's only a laborious form of idleness.' But…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“For most writers, reading is also a very intense experience; they don’t read so much as compete. The writer measure’s himself against every text…

— Betsy Lerner

“If you're a writer, reading is part of your job description.”

— Mark Rubinstein

“Wherever it left us, we were barely learning to live with it when here came Flannery O'Connor and Hank Williams to tell us that…

— Miller Williams