Books Quote by Y.S. Lee

“If you want to become a better writer, you have to write. But you also have to read.”

— Kami Garcia

“You have to invest yourself as a reader to be a good writer.”

— Saru Singhal

“I think that it's only natural that readers become writers. You can only learn so much before you have to share it with others.”

— Geary Davis

“Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.”

— Marilynne Robinson

“There are only two ways, really, to become a writer. One is to write. The other is to read.”

— Anna Quindlen

“I don't think you can reach your potential as a writer unless you're a passionate reader, AND read passionately.”

— Michelle D. Kwasney

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”

— Stephen King

“A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.”

— Eudora Welty

“Reading is a way to escape the real world. Writing is a way to create a new one.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

“A writer is first of all a reader. It is from reading that I derive the standards by which I measure my own work…

— Susan Sontag

“For a writer it was perhaps most important not to write, but to read. Read as much as you can because in so doing…

— Karl Ove Knausgård