Books Quote by John Lanchester

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you…

— Walter Jon Williams

Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work,

— Jennifer Egan

I consider reading to be part of my job.

— Elin Hilderbrand

I'm a really eclectic reader.

— Alice Hoffman

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

— S. E. Hinton

I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You can't rely…

— Ridley Scott

If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too.

— Tim Maleeny

My office-hour reading is fairly ad hoc: I generally read whatever seems relevant to what I'm editing, writing, or thinking about writing.

— Bret Stephens

Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count…

— Bennett Cerf

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 tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff…

— Vikram Seth