“A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur.”— Harlan Ellison Related Quotes “When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life.”— Christopher Morley “I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep”— Gloria E. Anzaldúa “You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”— Annie Proulx