Hundred Quote by David Denby

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

— Jeffery Deaver

I write to get myself writing. That and read Wallace Stevens' "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" for the umpteenth time. Certain authors for…

— Dan Chiasson

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

We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate…

— Elizabeth Berg

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

— Michael Moore

“If you want to become a better writer, you have to write. But you also have to read. One of the things I love…

— Kami Garcia

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

— Jerry B. Jenkins

The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts.

— Annie Dillard

A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.

— Patricia T. O'Conner

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

— V. S. Naipaul

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of…

— Ben Jonson

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his…

— Stephen Sondheim