Books Quote by Rita Dove

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

— Sylvia Day

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

— Mohsin Hamid

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

— Flannery O'Connor

There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.

— Dermot Healy

Those who write clearly have readers.

— Albert Camus

I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

— Emma Healey

The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.…

— Harlan Coben

The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work.

— Donna Tartt

I think that most of my writer friends are really compulsive. I think that's great. It's wonderful for them. It's just not my bag.…

— Junot Diaz

Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.

— William S Burroughs

A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

— Harlan Coben

“You ordinary people who read and do not write, who 'like to read' and know nothing of the sufferings of writers, how fortunate you…

— Joyce Carol Oates