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Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer.

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.

There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have some experience.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

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

Book sales and teens reading is always a fantastic thing, but we should also be celebrating and consuming the huge wealth of U.K. and U.K.-based writing and illustrating talent. Authors such as Charlie Higson, Darren Shan, Holly Smale, Tanya Byrne, Catherine Johnson, Sophie Mckenzie, to name but a few.

Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

Like most authors, I also love to read.

I don't write a novel every two years.

I don't reread my books.

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.

There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

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

I know authors shouldn't play favorites with books, but 'Release Me' really is right up there for me. The characters truly came alive on the page and drove the story as much as I did from behind the scenes. It was a pleasure to write, and I'm so thrilled that it's the first of a trilogy because I get to spend more time with the characters.

We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I didn't become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris.

I don't write books inadvertently.

I wrote four novels under the name Amy Silver. The first one was commissioned, and I was given basically the whole plot and the characters. They told me what to do, and I went straight away and did it. After that, I continued, and I was coming up with more my own ideas, although they did steer me.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

Senator Patrick Moynihan wrote more books than most people have ever read.

I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there.

I read a lot for me. But I'm not one of those people who gets 'The New York Times' book review and runs out and buys 10 books and is done with them and passing them out to friends, you know, two weeks later.

I never show my books to Ricky. His writing is very different, and anyway, he's only read one novel in his life: 'The Catcher in the Rye.'