Emily Hedrick

“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
― John Cheever

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

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye