Good Reading And Writing Quotes
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You enter a book as if you are setting out on a journey and, if it is a good book, you will be a different person when you reach the end.
— Chloe Thurlow
All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.
— James Agate
A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.
— Victor J. Banis
There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. ( ... )
A good novel editor is invisible. — Terri Windling
A good novel editor is invisible. — Terri Windling
How do you crush spirit? You take out all the good.
— S.A. Tawks
Good reading makes for damn hard writing.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget.
— Lauren Hammond
The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
— Criss Jami
It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings.
— Ramsay MacMullen
I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems.
— Edward Hirsch
Maybe we should all just shut up and read a good book.
— Mary Sisney
That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.
— William Faulkner
Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good.
— William Zinsser
I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839] — Edgar Allan Poe
[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839] — Edgar Allan Poe
There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.
— Robert Lane Greene
I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
— Charles Kuralt
For me, reading has to be pleasurable. Otherwise, I'm ditching the book and turning on Netflix. There's way too much good TV right now to write dull.
— Christopher Noxon
Good writing ain't necessarily good reading.
— Ken Kesey
The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying, or meditating, or endeavoring something for the public good.
— Thomas A Kempis
Above all, have a good time. If you aren't enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it.
— Tom Robbins
When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.
— Jen Knox
So much of what we read nowadays is there one moment and gone the next. When you read something good, cherish it.
— Carla H. Krueger
Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work.
— Kira Hawke
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.
— Jennifer Echols
Reading a good book is an escape to an alternative life, writing a good book is the closest thing to actually living that life.
— Chas Scott
I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
— Patricia Polacco
We can read a good spiritual book in search of information or in search of God. We will find only what we're looking for.
— Ron Brackin
A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.
— David Sedaris
Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne