The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote. Votes: 3
Julia AlvarezMy father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. Votes: 3
Anne LamottWords are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching. Votes: 2
Christina Baker KlineA great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. Votes: 2
Edith SitwellWriting and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world. Votes: 2
Robin HobbThere is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. Votes: 2
Clarence DayI wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing. Votes: 2
Patricia PolaccoA reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact. Votes: 2
Marcus GarveyThere are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowBeauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can. Votes: 0
Helen Gurley BrownWhatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing. Votes: 0
John Thomas SladekLet All Your Life's Experiences Lead To More Writing Encourage More Reading..! Votes: 0
Sujit LalwaniLike good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement. Votes: 0
Sara SheridanStudents need to make their own choices about reading material and writing topics. Votes: 0
Donalyn MillerReading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. Votes: 0
Jorge Luis BorgesReading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. Votes: 0
Jorge Luis BorgesWriting comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. Votes: 0
Annie ProulxYou write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading. Votes: 0
Richard Brinsley SheridanYou write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading. Votes: 0
Richard Brinsley SheridanI believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading. Votes: 0
Charles KuraltYou should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing. Votes: 0
Sterling W SillWriting reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic. Votes: 0
Richard FlanaganShe thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it. Votes: 0
Jeffrey EugenidesBy elevating your reading, you will improve your writing or at least tickle your thinking. Votes: 0
William SafireWe have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking? Votes: 0
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonEveryone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing. Votes: 0
William FaulknerStart writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing. Votes: 0
Brandon SandersonThe three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order. Votes: 0
Hisham MatarLike most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books. Votes: 0
Francine ProseStudying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn. Votes: 0
Jami AttenbergI'm always writing - its what I like to do. But when I'm not writing, I'm reading. Votes: 0
Michael ScottThe reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so. Votes: 0
Wallace StevensI tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing. Votes: 0
Sara GruenNobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good. Votes: 0
William ZinsserWhatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it. Votes: 0
Khaled HosseiniI love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them. Votes: 0
Neil JacksonOne of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading. Votes: 0
Lauren ConradWe teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture. Votes: 0
Shelley BermanWhile writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration. Votes: 0
Charles StrossReading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures Votes: 0
John RuskinI used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettA society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading. Votes: 0
Alberto ManguelOne must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonMy history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books. Votes: 0
Tony JudtFor me, the writing process is the same as the reading process. I want to know what happens next. Votes: 0
Neal AsherI can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. Votes: 0
Eric-Emmanuel SchmittIt usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear. Votes: 0
Steven WrightI am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading. Votes: 0
Tony HillermanI'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels. Votes: 0
John CaleI don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story. Votes: 0
Willa CatherI'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels." Votes: 0
John CaleSo much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am. Votes: 0
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