Always Quote by Helen Oyeyemi

It's insane to be a writer and not be a reader. When I'm writing I'm more likely to be reading four or five books…

— Markus Zusak

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

— Zadie Smith

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

Before you can become a writer, you have to be a reader, and a reader of everything, at that. To the best of my…

— Terry Pratchett

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

— Megan McCafferty

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

— Brian Reynolds Myers

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot.

— Helen Oyeyemi

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of…

— Stephenie Meyer

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

— Tom Sizemore

Being a writer is great because you get to come up with stuff.

— Courtney A. Kemp

I try to write the kind of books I like to read.

— Isabel Allende

My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So, as long…

— Charles de Lint