“It’s sometimes nice just to test things and talk to readers and hear back, and it makes you feel real, like you’ve got a real job with real people and you’re not in your little ivory tower … But when people get piled on, there’s nothing worse for your mental health.”— Matt Haig, theguardian.com
“Wicked people never have time for reading. It’s one of the reasons for their wickedness.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“If you feel…that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, 'The wo…”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Jenna: You’ve created two Lizzes, writer Liz and performer Liz. Performers need to be coddled, to be protected from the real world. Jack: I get it. I must treat her like the New York Times treats its readers.”— Kay Cannon, Jack Donaghy, Alec Baldwin, imdb.com
“Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor. For me, at least, I can declare that when I wrote T…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“I feel like 'fun' is frequently dismissed as a quality of a book, usually played down as escapism or, usually, just as a side note. Few people actually talk about what a fun book means. For me, it’s never meant escapism. 'Fun' means joy. It means the prose is exciting, the characters are great, the…”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com
“The biggest gift for any writer in the world, is to be read, and for the words they have written to help and move people.”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect.”— Gore Vidal, amazon.com
“Fools admire everything in an author of reputation. For my part, I read only to please myself. I like only that which serves my purpose.”— Voltaire, amazon.com
“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”— Hunter S. Thompson, amazon.com
“Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.”— Scott Westerfeld, goodreads.com
“Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.”— Neil Gaiman, neil-gaiman.tumblr.com
“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you’ve finished just to stay near it.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“We wanted readers, not just visitors; artistic appreciation, not just social likes.”— Chris Lavergne, techcrunch.com
“Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by going back and reinventing some part of what I’ve already written so that when I write it again, it is believable and interesting to me. Then I can go on.…”— Orson Scott Card, fictionfactor.com
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“Date a girl who doesn't read, because the girl who reads knows the importance of plot. She can trace out the demarcations of a prologue and the sharp edges of a climax. She feels them in her skin. The girl who reads will be patient with an intermission and expedite a denouement. But of all things, t…”— Charles Warnke, thoughtcatalog.com
“A girl who reads understands syntax. Literature has taught her that moments of tenderness come in sporadic but knowable intervals. A girl who reads knows that life is not planar; she knows, and rightly demands, that the ebb comes along with the flow of disappointment.”— Charles Warnke, thoughtcatalog.com