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To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.

To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.
– Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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  3. A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  4. To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring -” read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring -” read a book. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  5. The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went. – Saki
  6. Life is like a cooking pot. If you cook something good, you well get something tasty. If you cook something bad, you will get something bad. – Debasish Mridha
  7. There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won’t, and that’s a wife who can’t cook and will. – Robert Frost
  8. And read-¦ read all the time-¦ read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. – David McCullough Jr
  9. I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer. – Robert Lynn Asprin
  10. To increase the chances of a writer trying to kill themselves, cut off their hands. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  11. Whenever I encounter writer’s block, I stop writing -¦ with my hands; and I then start writing with my legs. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  12. When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  13. A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  14. A writer’s pen depreciates with every word that it writes. Whereas she appreciates with every word that she writes. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  15. To put an arrogant ‘famous’ writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  16. The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  17. Coffee is to a Writer as Blood is to a Vampire! – Kade Cook
  18. We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  19. Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  20. There are more writers who read than readers who write. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  21. You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock. – Harold Bloom
  22. And tell them all about the books you’ve read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That’s an order. You can never read too many books. – PB Kerr
  23. I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I’m supposed to take when I one day leave this house. – Eve Ensler
  24. He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn’t sleep at all. – Laini Taylor
  25. Read. Read until your eyes are sore. Then read some more. – Lisa Bloom
  26. Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. – Kira Hawke
  27. Read, re-read! Every word you read is a food for thy soul! – Lailah Gifty Akita
  28. The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself. – SA Tawks
  29. Read books when you are free, read minds when you are’nt….but do read… – Rabindranath Tagore
  30. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. – Gabrielle Zevin
  31. Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply. – Richard Brookhiser
  32. A writer creates like the sculptor, with one exception: The writer must create his block of marble, before chiseling away the non-essentials. – Garry Fitchett
  33. We don’t know who was tricked by whom. Did the writer deceive the word, or did the word deceive the writer? – Dejan Stojanovic
  34. The important thing for any writer to remember is to take the writing seriously, but not the writer. – AE Poynor
  35. One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is every happy anywhere. – Raymond Chandler
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  37. The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd. – Charles Bukowski
  38. Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn’t finding an idea, it’s choosing one – Jo Linsdell
  39. Who knows why we do it? And when we’ve done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That’s what makes a writer a writer. – Chloe Thurlow
  40. I could never stand to be a writer. Not a real writer. It’s entirely too awful, having thoughts that refuse to become sentences. – Caitln R Kiernan

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