Book Quote by Stephen King

I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're…

— Norman Mailer

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes…

— Princess Superstar

I think when you're a writer most of what you read influences you. The rhythms get into your head.

— Elizabeth Crook

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just…

— Terry Pratchett

A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.

— Patricia T. O'Conner

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came…

— Margaret Mahy

Most of the writers I like just intimidate and humble me but in that there's a good deal of inspiration to be had as…

— Henry Rollins

Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,”

— Steven Pinker

I'm not the most accomplished of writers out there, but I feel that I quite effective all the same.

— Don Gibson

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

— Susie Bright

I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it.

— John Lanchester