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All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

Writers are so important.

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.

The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.

Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.

Good writers are of necessity rare.

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.