Books 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

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Ruskin Bond

Writing's not always a pleasure to me, but if I'm not writing every other pleasure loses its savour.

— John Braine

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

— Paul Theroux

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

Of course there is no denying the possible pleasure of holing up with a fat, slow-moving, mediocre novel; still, we all know that we…

— Joseph Brodsky

If you want to be a good writer, make sure you read. I'm amazed by how many people don't bother to do that.

— Mitch Albom

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

— Wallace Stegner

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

— Ian Mcewan