“Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.”
“I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me. ”
“I went to college, but I learned to write by reading and writing.”
“Learn as much by writing as by reading.”
“I think you can read a dozen different books and not learn a single thing about writing. Good writers don't read, they study books. They pick the plots apart and the sentences apart. And part of studying is copying. Reading is great and every writer should read, but reading alone isn't enough to learn what you need to learn...”
“A writer learns that easy to read is hard to write ...”