Books Quote by H. P. Lovecraft

Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!

— Piers Anthony

“There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.”

— Robert Lane Greene

Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to…

— Henry Watson Fowler

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring…

— Andre Maurois

“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,”

— Steven Pinker

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Reading is a practice; good reading is a highly sophisticated practice. The practice has to be learnt.”

— Andrew Davison

Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get…

— Iain Banks

“Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words - the language. Don't…

— Stephen King

There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who…

— Stephen King

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

— Jose Bergamin

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