Books Quote by Julia Glass

Writers who don't read can't write well. It's that simple. The more you read, the better you read, the better you'll write. The upside…

— Laura Lippman

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

Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers.

— Andrew Wylie

I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because…

— Markus Zusak

You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you form a…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading and you'll go through a phase where you will…

— J. K. Rowling

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

— A. S. Byatt

If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers…

— R. L. Stine

I have a bad habit of reading more than one book simultaneously!

— Celeste Ng

I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother reading the…

— Chris Abani

One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again…

— Justin Cronin

I caution writers all the time to slow down and pay more attention to the work in front of them than to the end…

— Sue Grafton