“Never write anything that does not move you or give you pleasure. Emotion is then transferred from the writer to the reader.”
“Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.”
“If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.”
“A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.”
“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.”
“Writers write like readers and read like writers.”