Book Quote by Stephen Graham Jones

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

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who…

— Flannery O'Connor

Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You're reading as someone who wants to enjoy…

— Homer Hickam

It's insane to be a writer and not be a reader. When I'm writing I'm more likely to be reading four or five books…

— Markus Zusak

It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad…

— Thomas L. Dumm

That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction.

— Marcy Dermansky

I do find it challenging to leave stuff out. Two of my models for novel-writing are 'The Great Gatsby' and 'As I Lay Dying,'…

— Amy Bloom

I read continually and don't understand writers who say they don't read while working on a book. For a start, a book takes me…

— Paul Lynch

I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to…

— Matthew Healy

Because reading is a way of putting yourself in someone else's experience, especially reading fiction.

— Pete Buttigieg

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is…

— George R. R. Martin