Asks Quote by Karl Kraus

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the…

— Horace

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

— Joyce Carol Oates

What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

— Samuel Johnson

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

— Nora Roberts

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.

— William Trevor

There are some people who have been reading me for years, and they keep saying kind things about the writing. That's what you're writing…

— Elmore Leonard

Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.

— George Crabbe

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

I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at the same…

— Toni Morrison

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Writers write for the same reason readers read. We want to know how it ends, too.”

— Robynn Tolbert

Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return…

— Penelope Lively