Steve Erickson Quotes

The books I read, if they intrude on my writing, do so as weather will pass through and touch a landscape - affecting it, yes, but only now and then leaving a permanent mark.

I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.

Learned to read, and for a while as a kid, you think books are just leaves on trees. Then suddenly, you think a human being is making that, and maybe you could do that.

Without science fiction, without the influence these books have had on me over the years, I'm not sure I would care much about reading or writing today.

I adore Toni Morrison. I think we would all be better writers if we read more of her.

Everyone has a story that they read when they were younger that influenced them.

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.

I write the books that I'm compelled to and I definitely learn things about the world when I write them, and I hope that other people get something out of them, enjoy them, see the world differently when they're done.

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.

People do write books.

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

Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things others do.

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.