Books Quote by Emma Walton Hamilton

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.

— Dermot Healy

The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we…

— Ruth Ozeki

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we…

— John Green

Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other.

— Jonathan Lethem

The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act…

— Marita Golden

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate…

— Elizabeth Berg

I try to read as a reader and also read as a writer. I mean, they're not so different.

— Kevin Young

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just…

— Terry Pratchett

Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly can't learn…

— Frank Smith

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

— Zadie Smith