645 quotes found
“I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.”
“Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it.”
“Before there were books, we read each other.”
“Write when you can't stop writing. Read when you stopped writing!”
“Through our reading we can travel to other times and other places, into other peoples minds and hearts and souls: it is a transcendent experience.”
“Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.”
“The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.”
“Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.”
“Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could take photographs and put them in the book. But she said the idea of a book was to ...”
“Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.”
“What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.”
“Hard writing makes easy reading.”
“Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.”
“To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a familiar route. To read is to travel through that terrain with the author as a guide-- a gu...”
“There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.”
“The paper is patient, but the reader is not.”
“I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind, and yet I want to be able to see the represented world through it. I admire artists who succeed ...”
“One Lifetime is not enough.”
“The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects.”
“Writing does not exist unless there is someone to read it, and each reader will take something different from a novel, from a chapter, from a line.”
