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Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.

In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.

Reading takes me to a different place than my everyday life. I usually get fully involved in what I'm reading about, so it's a great escape.

Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing.

I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.

I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!