My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“You will always find me writing and reading as long as I have the breath of life within me.” — K.D. Green Copy Share Image
The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote. — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
I have been writing stories and working on ideas for a long time. I like writing and reading a lot, so I… — Karan Wahi Copy Share Image
All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I don't spend as much time drawing as I do writing and reading. That's the really work-intensive part. And by the time… — Kate Beaton Copy Share Image
“The nature of immortality is a mystery,' he says, speaking so softly that we have to lean closer to hear.' But everything… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
I'm definitely of the 'Harry Potter'-transfigured-me-into-a-reader-and-writer generation. And that's really all I read throughout my teen years, because I really devoted all… — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
We have to tell the American public that they're missing the boat, that they have to get into writing and reading. Not… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
One thing I like about writing is that it provides such a wonderful opportunity for confidential chats with readers. In the privacy… — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
If you think that what you're doing is not all that important in the larger scheme of things and that you're just… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Writing and reading fanfiction isn’t just something you do; it’s a way of thinking critically about the media you consume, of being… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fanfiction is the madwoman in mainstream culture’s attic, but the attic won’t contain it forever. Writing and reading fanfiction isn’t just something… — Anne Jamison Copy Share Image
An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles.… — James Paul Gee Copy Share Image
Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too.… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the… — John Barth Copy Share Image
I allude to Back to the Future in the 1985 story to let folks know it was an inspiration and because it… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“If I know the classical psychological theories well enough to pass my comps and can reformulate them in ways that can impress… — Stephen Muse Copy Share Image
“So why does our writing matter, again?" they ask. Because of the spirit, I say. Because of the heart. Writing and reading… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Hear me now or regret it later: Everything you write must be read aloud. Once all the context items are in place,… — Jiro Adachi Copy Share Image
“Well I've been locking myself up in my house for some time now Reading and writing and reading and thinking and searching… — The Avett Brothers Copy Share Image
You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other… — Joan Lingard Copy Share Image
Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“Writing and reading allow one consciousness to find and take shelter in another. When the minds of the reader and writer perfectly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
