#WriterWednesday: #Quotes About #Reading And #Writing

One sure window into a person’s soul is his reading list.
~Mary B. W. Tabor

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
~Philip Pullman

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
~Tom Clancy

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
~Annie Proulx

There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn’t because the book is not there and worth being written — it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and, if you fail to find that form, the story will not tell itself.
~Mark Twain

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale, and you can get a story from everything you touch.
~Hans Christian Andersen

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
~C.S. Lewis