"There are only two ways, really, to become a writer. One is to write. The other is to read."

"Read the greatest stuff but read the stuff that isn't too great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams at Western Union"

- Edward Albee

There are only two ways, really, to become a writer. One is to write. The other is to read. "The rest you learn from books."

How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen