http://grammar.about.com/od/advicefromthepros/a/Writers-On-Reading.htm http://grammar.about.com/od/advicefromthepros/a/Writers-On-R... The one I knew of initia

http://grammar.about.com/od/advicefromthepros/a/Writers-On-Reading.htm http://grammar.about.com/od/advicefromthepros/a/Writers-On-R... The one I knew of initially was from Faulkner (One of my moderately favorite writers) "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 is good, you'll find out."