Behalf Quote by Margaret Mahy

I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand…

— Siegfried Lenz

When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has…

— Gerald Brenan

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

Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature…

— Leland Ryken

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more…

— Manuel Puig

A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly forestall them.

— Rudolf Flesch

An able reader often discovers in other people's writings perfections beyond those that the author put in or perceived, and lends them richer meanings…

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Marianne Moore

The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.

— Zadie Smith

That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading.

— Debbie Reynolds

“They write for people who read with the surface of their minds, people with reading habits that make the smallest demands on them, people…

— William Gaddis

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

— S. E. Hinton