I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.Marilyn Hacker

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.Naguib Mahfouz

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.Rex Stout

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.  E.M. Forster

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.Anita Diament

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.Rita Dove

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.Bill Murray

I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend? Adam Sandler

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine. Spike Milligan 

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.   Coolio