Reading Quotes - Page 17

Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don’t think this is worth writing about. But this book isn’t for you. It’s for me.

You may think that you don't want to read about the problems of being brought up Mennonite, but the great thing about books is that you'll read anything a good writer wants you to read.

The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.

If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you travel. If you succeed in the voyage, others enter after, one at a time, also alone, but in communion with your imagination, traversing your route. Books are solitudes where we meet.

Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.

Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.

I write because I have to write; but I also write because there’s somebody out there, hopefully, who will read it.

There is nothing like the moment you connect with a reader! Nothing like the response that you get when what you have written touches someone in some way. It's a moment in which your work is almost a co-creation, you and the reader joining forces to make your words live.

If a book can save - redeem us from the mediocrity of the mundane - surely, there must be a God.

I was only good at one thing: words. I had read more, much more, than anybody else, and I knew how words worked in the way that some boys knew how engines worked.

Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.

Reading can only take you so far, up to the moment where you must take action with your own hands

To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.

To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.

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

It's more important to be read than paid.

12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more.