Hand in hand Quote by Youth Lagoon

I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading helps train…

— Karin Slaughter

As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box,…

— Paul Rudnick

Every day I try to do some small thing connected to writing. Or I'll station myself at a café and try to hold myself…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

I'm always writing - its what I like to do. But when I'm not writing, I'm reading.

— Michael Scott

I do think reading is the best practice for writing, along with writing all the time. I actually never liked writing on my own…

— Tavi Gevinson

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

— Marisha Pessl

I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.

— Neal Shusterman

I like writing, and I enjoy it. It's painful. You can't get around the pain of writing. I'm still trying to balance on what…

— Gbenga Akinnagbe

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

— Katherine Paterson

I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring.

— Carrie Brownstein

I admit my reading time is limited because I can write in the situations and places where people usually read. But reading is the…

— Michael Connelly

I love writing but don't get a huge amount of time to do it.

— Lennie James