Books Quote by Terry Southern

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

— Jonathan Lethem

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

— Justin Cronin

I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer because I had the time and…

— Sarah Waters

I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than…

— Gayl Jones

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

— Tom T. Hall

I really believed that anything at all was worth writing about if you cared about it enough, and that the best and only necessary…

— Susan Orlean

I became a reader - never mind a writer - because of Stephen King.

— Paul G. Tremblay

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

— James Patterson

I did have a love for literature that overpowered my hatred of the people who taught it, and I think because I had no…

— Craig Ferguson

The people who encouraged me weren't necessarily writers or readers themselves. They were people who were just pleased to see me devote my life…

— Pankaj Mishra

I knew I loved writing, and I was raised by people who love books.

— Nick McDonell