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 reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic. — Richard Flanagan 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
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. — George Orwell 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
The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote. — Julia Alvarez 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
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
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 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I love so many books and authors that it's hard to name just a few, but I'm always particularly excited when new… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“How the excitement comes upon me to tell it all! In the quest of writing, the heart can speed up with anticipation--as… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
I think writing and reading are completely synergistic; not necessarily in that one has to be a good reader to be a… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Sometimes i just get bored live in real life, so i will hide my self in to the fiction by writing and… — Vindri Prachmitasari Copy Share Image
Writing and reading and speaking with specificity and skill has never seen more important to me than it does at this moment.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems the next time… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
