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I've always been a reader and a writer.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

I cannot recall any moment of clarity about becoming a writer. I always liked to read. That's what did it.

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.

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 read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

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!

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.