Eye Quote by Valeria Luiselli

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

— Hilary Mantel

As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world.

— Lynne Tillman

I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'

— Sara Shepard

I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world.

— Roxane Gay

I used to love reading, but since I've started writing, it's harder for me to immerse, because I spend so much time looking at…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

Many of us write because we are readers and have grown up in a long tradition, and we want to be able to add…

— Rosellen Brown

Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words." From the…

— Orhan Pamuk

I love reading almost as much as I love writing.

— Karin Slaughter

Reading takes me to a different place than my everyday life. I usually get fully involved in what I'm reading about, so it's a…

— Rey Mysterio

I have always been immersed in a world filled with words, earlier as a reader and now, finally, as both a reader and a…

— Twinkle Khanna

I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some writers, though…

— Laurie Foos

I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a mountain, a…

— Jonathan Lethem