Books Quote by David Duchovny

You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.

— Joseph Delaney

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

— Anita Brookner

I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand…

— Siegfried Lenz

It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad…

— Thomas L. Dumm

The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely.

— Amitava Kumar

PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.

— Ambrose Bierce

I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.

— Kelley Armstrong

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

— Angela Carter

To read without writing is to sleep.

— St. Jerome

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually…

— Craig Johnson

I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

— Alice Walker