Denise Young

“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

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry