Firsts Quote by Jean Paul

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

— Jean Paul

Never put off writing until you are better at it.

— Gary Henderson

If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of…

— S. E. Hinton

I won't write about a subject unless I've mastered it.

— Raymond Kethledge

I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than…

— Linda Sue Park

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

If you feel the urge to write, just lie down and read a book: it will pass.

— Fran Lebowitz

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.

— Jeanette Winterson

Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.

— Marianne Moore

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

— Catherine the Great

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really…

— Tracy Kidder

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

— Wallace Stegner