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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

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

Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

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

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I know how to write.

I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books.