Gertrude Stein
“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
"The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book."
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
"I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog."
Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros