Care Quote by Sandra Cisneros

To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.

— Karen Thompson Walker

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

Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's also not…

— Chad Harbach

It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to…

— Laini Taylor

People have proven over and over that they will read if they are given something they like. The problem with reading is not reading,…

— Tucker Max

A common quality I see of people who are successful is that they are voracious readers.

— Matt Mullenweg

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and…

— Erica Jong

For so long I didn't have any kind of readership at all - I'd get published, but not read - the idea of writing…

— Geoff Dyer

Good readers make much out of little.

— Irving Howe

When you publish something, it is very much as if you pulled your pants down in public. If what you have written is good,…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

And the truth is that if a writer is successful, you gain readers. It benefits all the writers. It's important for all the writers…

— Isabel Allende

When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like…

— Alan Garner