Certain Quote by Eudora Welty

Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story…

— Paul Kropp

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

Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and…

— Mary Gaitskill

“You write out of experience, and a large part of that experience is the life of the spirit; reading is the liberation into the…

— Penelope Lively

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

— Stephen King

“… writing is always some form of interpretation, some form of translating the specificity of one’s roots or expertise or even one’s own mind…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another human being.…

— David L. Ulin

“Writing is a form of intense thinking that takes a person on a journey into previously uncharted territory of the writer’s mind.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.

— Isabel Allende

Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective.

— Laurie Helgoe

“Writing is a conduit. It opens up a passageway into the past. Not just for the writer, but for the reader too. Both readers…

— Lang Leav

In writing, one searches, and that is what keeps one writing, that one sees and experiences things from another angle entirely; one experiences oneself…

— Herta Muller