“The more you read and write, the better you think and live.”

“Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork — reading, writing, thinking — can.”

Helen Gurley Brown (1922–2012) American author, editor, publisher, and businesswoman

“Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ.”

Lois Duncan (1934–2016) American young-adult and children's writer

“You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.”

Jean M. Auel (1936) Novelist

“The more you read and the more you teach yourself, the less you rely on something like drugs to take you to a better place.”

Pete Doherty (1979) English musician, writer, actor, poet and artist

“I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

“As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just… get better.”

Romain Gary book Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable

“Read a lot, listen well and deeply, and write a lot. […] If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.”

Natalie Goldberg book Writing Down the Bones

“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001) American aviator and author

“Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist