Books Quote by Richard Peck

A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

— Harlan Coben

“Nobody but a reader becomes a writer.”

— Richard Peck

Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Every author does not write for every reader”

— Samuel Johnson

I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business…

— Agatha Christie

People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.

— Virginia Woolf

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

— Thomas Berger

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

— Julian Barnes

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a…

— James A. Michener

I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader.

— Dustin Lance Black

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

— Garry Disher

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

— Tom T. Hall