Books Quote by Justin Cronin

You might learn as much about how to write by reading Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler, Saul Bellow, Paul Muldoon or a hundred…

— David Denby

I did a couple of writing seminars in Canada with high school kids. These were the bright kids; they all have computers, but they…

— Stephen King

One of the things about the arts that is so important is that in the arts you discover the only way to learn how…

— David McCullough

I think you learn how to write by reading an enormous amount, so then your memory is stocked with various constructions, various ways of…

— Lucy Hughes-Hallett

“The only way you learn to write is by reading and studying the kind of thing you would like to write — and by writing.”

— Barbara Abercrombie

Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a…

— John Green

Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about…

— John Green

'Sharp Objects' is honestly one of my most exciting reading experiences.

— Krysten Ritter

I write as if I'm someone reading the book - often people ask if I write one strand first and then go back and…

— Ruth Ware

I learned to write from reading. I had no writing classes. It's part of my thinking as the writer-author, reading, but then I also…

— Lynne Tillman

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not…

— Jennifer Egan

It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

— Steven Wright