Amazing Quote by Matthew Tobin Anderson

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

— Zadie Smith

You can recognize in your own reading habits what writers are doing that works and what doesn't. I'm becoming much more aware of that…

— Dan Chaon

If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.

— Caitlin Flanagan

For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it'll work itself out. You…

— Robin McKinley

I know that the way to be a really successful writer is to write the same kind of book over and over again. Find…

— Neil Gaiman

My advice to writers is: READ! A lot. Then read some more. read, read, read, read!

— Floyd Cooper

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

— Gene Fowler

Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes…

— Princess Superstar

Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And…

— Lois Duncan

We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate…

— Elizabeth Berg

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