Sylvia Day Quotes

We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate good writing: by reading.

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

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

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.

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

If you want to take writing on, you should pay writing the respect it deserves, which is to say, reading it.

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.

If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.

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.

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.

Like most authors, I also love to read.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

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.

I guess the important thing for young writers is to read.

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

Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.

I'm not a writer. I like being a reader.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

Writing was something I have always been interested in. I've grown up in a household full of books, with both my parents English teachers and very booky.

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

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

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

Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.