Believe Quote by Nora Roberts

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

— Nora Roberts

If you don't read for pleasure, you'll lose your edge as a writer.

— Nora Roberts

I write mostly for pleasure, and the reading should ideally be for pleasure, too.

— Ruskin Bond

I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

— Alice Walker

It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.

— Anne Rivers Siddons

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

— William Trevor

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is only a…

— Marcel Proust

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

— Samuel Johnson

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

— John Cheever

If you have that unconquerable urge to write, nothing will stop you from writing.

— Theodore Dreiser