Laura Lippman Quotes

I love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.

You can't write if you don't read.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.

I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading helps train my brain in the right direction.

I love to read, and I've always loved to write.

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have, it's the only way of learning how to write a story.

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.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

I never stopped reading.

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.