Books Quote by David Sedaris

In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.

— Catherine the Great

People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something.

— Amber Tamblyn

Everything I write, I read out loud. It has to sound a certain way. It has to look a certain way on the page.

— Jacqueline Woodson

It's fun to have someone to talk to and get input from when you write. I usually get stuck when I'm just in my…

— Astrid S

Writing doesn't come easily to me.

— Rick Stein

The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.…

— Harlan Coben

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I…

— Lenny Kravitz

Sometimes people won't even finish a piece that you wrote, because they've already decided what it is that you want to say, and generally…

— Louis Menand

Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.

— Elizabeth David