All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.
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Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
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.
Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.
The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.
As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.
I try to read writers who are better than me because it inspires me to be better.
To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.
I've always been a reader and a writer.
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