Here are some quotes related to Writing along with their authors:

“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” – Stephen King

“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

“Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.” – Eudora Welty

“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” – William Faulkner

“I kept always two books in my pocket: one to read, one to write in.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.” – Ernest Gaines

“The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.” – Samuel Johnson

“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.” – Lisa See

“One sure window into a person’s soul is his reading list.” – Mary B. W. Tabor

“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” – Toni Morrison

“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.” – Orson Scott

“Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.” – Stephen King

“Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.” – Mark Twain

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” – Madeleine L’Engle

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” – Anaïs Nin

“Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very’; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.” – Mark Twain

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” – Jack Kerouac

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” – Benjamin Franklin

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.” – Saul Bellow

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” – Robert Frost

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” – Ray Bradbury

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything.” – Aldous Huxley

“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of job: It’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.” – Neil Gaiman

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” – Somerset Maugham

“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.” – Terry Pratchett

“You can make anything by writing.” – C.S. Lewis

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” – Thomas Mann

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.” – Stephen King

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” – Jack London

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou