Books Quote by Epictetus

If you would be a writer, first be a reader

— Allan W. Eckert

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

— Cassandra Clare

I write what I would like to read.

— Kathleen Norris

If you wish to be a writer, write.

— Epictetus

I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.

— Mark Leibovich

I'm not a writer. I like being a reader.

— Brian Reynolds Myers

“READ. You have no business wanting to be a writer unless you are a reader. You should read fantasies and essays, biographies and poetry,…

— Kate DiCamillo

write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.

— Nicholas Sparks

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

— Garry Disher

If you wish to write, write.

— Epictetus

I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.

— Michel Houellebecq

“If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write.”

— Anne Rice