A Quote by Jack Vance

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

Jack Vance

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Jack Vance
American - Author
August 28, 1916 - May 26, 2013

I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read... I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from.

Don DeLillo

Writers who don't read can't write well. It's that simple. The more you read, the better you read, the better you'll write. The upside is that you can't read too much, and even 'junk' reading can be constructive.

Laura Lippman

My poetry is the most disappointing thing for me that I've ever written. When I say I can write everything, I don't say I can write everything well.

Jess Walter

I really believe that being flexible and grateful contributes a lot to your happiness, which contributes to your health and contributes to your look.

Christie Brinkley

I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

Jackie Collins

With the first novel, I had to tell myself, 'No one is ever going to read it, so you might as well just write it.' With the second, I was pretty sure someone was going to read it.

Celeste Ng

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

Bella Thorne

People choose their modes of information in much more tunneled ways. I think cable news contributes for sure. I think President Trump contributes.

Martha MacCallum

When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

Norman Mailer

The most important thing is you can't write what you wouldn't read for pleasure. It's a mistake to analyze the market thinking you can write whatever is hot. You can't say you're going to write romance when you don't even like it. You need to write what you would read if you expect anybody else to read it.

Nora Roberts

To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences and they can just be rich and famous. Their job is to write. Some really don't realize that. And you can't write unless you read.

Ursula K. Le Guin

He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.

Chuck Berry

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.

David Remnick

I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please note: the difficulties, not the problems. Problems are solved or disappear with the revolving times. Difficulities remain. It will always be difficult to teach well, to learn accurately; to read, write, and count readily and competently; to acquire a sense of history and start one's education or anothers.

Jacques Barzun

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.