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Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books. — Francine Prose

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly
they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced. — Aldous Huxley

A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur. — Harlan Ellison

I love pleasure of reading, writing and dancing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You write with ease, to show your breeding,
But easy writing's curst hard reading. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself. — James Lipton

All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later. — Joyce Carol Oates

My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing — Leopold Fechtner

Reading literature and engaging in writing breaks through the mental rigidity that experience and repetition breeds. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The greatest compliments I've ever received were complaints from readers that I made them stay up all night reading. — H.E. Fairbanks

A book lives a new life every time it is read. — Brandon Sanderson

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact. — Marcus Garvey

When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't. — Eoin Colfer

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. — Tom T. Hall

Easy reading is hard writing, — Ernest Hemingway,

There's no posterity to write for. I'm writing now for mutated arthropods. — Peter Reading

I believe the uncertain times are almost upon us, and they are much more uncertain than I imagined. — S.A. Tawks

We must stop this unimaginable atrocity before it becomes a reality. — S.A. Tawks

Reading is more important than writing. — Roberto Bolano

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. — Edith Sitwell

Before there were books, we read each other. — Lisa Cron

I look upon fine phrases as a lover. - John Keats — Beatrice K. Otto

Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content. — Sara Sheridan

Don't be jealous, be agressive. Make 2012 yours! — Rachel Firasek

Because reading is a selfish activity, writing must be unselfish, a gift to the reader. — Oscar Patton

One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading. — Lauren Conrad

The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, I read, therefore it writes. — Italo Calvino

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language. — Jamie L. Harding

If reading is like breathing then writing is like the beat of a heart. — Laura Holford-Green

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth. — Criss Jami

I've learned to let my characters speak and act the way they want to! I've tried to interfere but they just get angry at me and throw big rocks. — Shandy L. Kurth

Just a little every day That's the way Children learn to read and write Bit by bit and mite by mite. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time. — Simon Mawer

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. — Isaac D'Israeli

You've got to have high expectations to achieve top results. — S.A. Tawks

As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too. — Mary Oliver

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema. — Mary Garden

If you can't learn about reading and writing from Kurt, maybe you should be doing something else. — Kurt Vonnegut

There are many advices on writing. The best I know is stop reading them and start writing — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Education stimulates self-study. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A writer concocts a different story for every reader. — Mike Bryan

Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.
Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged. — Ernest Hemingway,

Digital distribution has widened the reading world. — Sara Sheridan

I've always been very grateful that enough people have enjoyed reading what I've written that I've been able to pursue writing professionally. — Christopher Paolini

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television. — Johnny Cash

I just need to sit, think, write and read. — Nicholas Trandahl

To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

BIG books are better. There, I said it and it's true. — Richelle E. Goodrich

To be original is not creating your own idea; it's the essence of the idea in the reader's mind. — Kaela Marooney

Write about fear. Write about pain. Write about heartache and resentment. Nothing worth reading comes from writing what can be said out loud. — Alexandra Cruz

I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more. — Nolan Gould

The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world. — Anthony Liccione

Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement. — Sara Sheridan

In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing. — Oliver Sacks

The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote. — Julia Alvarez

To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it. — Alejandro Zambra

Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself. — Marcus Aurelius

Why just read the writing? Write the reading! — Jesse B. Booth

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. — Samuel Johnson

Reading and writing were a dangerous business; they made you think. — Gemma Malley

A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape.
Even when you're the one writing it. — Julie Wright

Writing to her from America, her best friend remarked, 'I've stopped reading fiction, I just read about you. — Catherine Bailey

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious. — Criss Jami

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read. — Jeanette Winterson

I am grateful to all my readers; you inspired me to keep writing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean. — James Richardson

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration. — Charles Stross

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so. — Julianna Baggott

There are more writers who read than readers who write. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

[...] She knew it a book it was not just a book. Everything had a meaning. There was an invisible web that connected the words. It was like magic — Ben Oliveira

Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer. — Amity Gaige

A doctorate study is the passion for extensive research, reading, thinking and writing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. — Mason Cooley

It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices. — Brandon Sanderson

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself. — S.A. Tawks

So what else you into, then? I mean except reading and writing, talking like the Queen, and dressing like my granddad? — Alexis Hall

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books. — Tony Judt

Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity. — Donald J. Bingle

There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications. — Manuel Rivas

We're moving from reading the genetic code to writing it. — Craig Venter

Literacy in North America has historically been focused on reading, not writing; consumption, not production. — Clive Thompson

I read and feel that same compulsion; the desire to possess what he has written, which can only be subdued by writing something myself. — Patti Smith

One shot is all anyone needs if they back themselves and do it right. — S.A. Tawks

Poor reading, like poor writing, is imposing what you already know on texts. You should go into reading to discover, not to reaffirm what you know. — Azar Nafisi

He could tell her that dogs used to look like cats and vice versa without a lick of proof and it would change the way she regarded the animals. — S.A. Tawks

Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read. — Marilynne Robinson

Cry while writing it, and readers will cry while reading it. — A.D. Posey

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting. — Karl Kraus

I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them. — Neil Jackson

Writing,Reading,Working and Loving People. That's My life. — Ahmed Farrag

She'd majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after that. — Rainbow Rowell

You should always have 2 books ... the one you're reading and the one you're writing. — Sterling W. Sill

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading and writing. — Daniel Pinkwater

The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order. — Hisham Matar

There are a lot of writers, but only one YOU. — Pandora Gray

My between-books strategy was reading voraciously and on a whim. — Erik Larson

If you don't write, then read. — Sylvia L'Namira

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante