#read

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#fairies #gifts #good #good and bad #i

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#children #off #reading #room #scene

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#books #even #general #i #i think

Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#back #come #draft #eyes #figure

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#books #decided #got #i #job

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#did #fiction #forgotten #great #great deal

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#else #entertain #got #one thing #put

It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life. ↗

— Sammy Hagar

#arms #eddie #enjoying #everything #good

'Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don't teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is. ↗

— Merle Haggard

#addicted #addictive #already #cause #easy

I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#gives #i #kiss #reader #want