#WriterWednesday: #Quotes About #Reading And #Writing

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.
~Eudora Welty

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.
~Ernest Gaines

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything really good.
~William Faulkner

As for ‘Write what you know,’ I was regularly told this as a beginner. I think it’s a very good rule and have always obeyed it. I write about imaginary countries, alien societies on other planets, dragons, wizards, the Napa Valley in 22002. I know these things. I know them better than anybody else possibly could, so it’s my duty to testify about them.
~Ursula K. Le Guin

It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.
~P.D. James

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
~Wally Lamb

Write what should not be forgotten.
~Isabel Allende