Julie Burchill Quotes

I haven't read for pleasure in 35 years. I mean, I get a lot of pleasure from what I read... For me, it's gotten so that it doesn't seem as though I've read a book unless I've written about it. It really seems the completion of the reading process.

For about as long as I've been writing fiction, I've kept a record of the books I've 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.

I love to read. I was in AP English in high school, and we were assigned books every few months. 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' are two of my favorite ones.

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

I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.

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

I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out.

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

Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that I didn't love writing and reading. When I was really young, my mother would read poems to me. I loved Edgar Allan Poe - I am sure I didn't understand it, but I loved it.

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

I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love.

I never read articles about my books.

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.'

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've done projects where I've read 25 books and did all kinds of journal and character work for hours.

In sixth grade, I made up books to give book reports on.

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

As a reader since very early, I have found myself drawn to rants.

Doubtless, reading good books benefited me during the months and years of writing, yet I remained skeptical of any tight correlation to what I produced. That was naive.

I'm the world's worst at reading reviews and then pretending I've read the book.

I remember, even in college, reading Cliffs Notes about a book and thinking to myself, 'Geez, that sounds like a good book. I should probably read it.'

It's nice being married to someone who likes to read because you can indulge in geeky conversations about books.

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

People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely.