Language Quote by Eugene H. Peterson

“I am a storyteller, for better and for worse. I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, is a universal human disposition, going…

— Oliver Sacks

“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,”

— Steven Pinker

“Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.”

— Marilynne Robinson

“Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the…

— Madelaine Standing

“Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.”

— Y.S. Lee

“Reading is a full contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources. What…

— Thomas C. Foster

“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

“One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.

— Irving Stone

“In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination.”

— Richard Louv