Admire Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count…

— Bennett Cerf

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

— Manuel Puig

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -

— Stephen King

Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page…

— Katherine Paterson

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of…

— Stephenie Meyer

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great…

— Virginia Woolf

If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus…

— Allan W. Eckert

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

— Cynthia Ozick

I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a mountain, a…

— Jonathan Lethem

I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

— Emma Healey

When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of…

— Martin Amis

There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

— Isaac D'Israeli