"If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that." - Stephen King 
"You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life - or criticize it - but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful." - Ernest Hemingway