Done Quote by Rudolf Flesch

When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected…

— Margaret Mahy

Writers who don't read can't write well. It's that simple. The more you read, the better you read, the better you'll write. The upside…

— Laura Lippman

“Lay down a method also for your reading; let it be in a consistent and consecutive course, and not in that desultory and unmethodical…

— Earl of Chesterfield

read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see how the…

— P. D. James

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of…

— Ben Jonson

The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts.

— Annie Dillard

A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

— Patrick Modiano

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

— Joyce Carol Oates

write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.

— Nicholas Sparks

“The same skills needed for writing are needed or reading. Writers fail readers, but it also happens the other way around and readers fail…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

“I think you can read a dozen different books and not learn a single thing about writing. Good writers don't read, they study books.…

— Joe Bunting

I think one of the mistakes typically with authors is they have written more books than they've read.

— Larry Winget