Long Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world.

— Roxane Gay

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

— Joyce Carol Oates

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

— Eudora Welty

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.

— Kate DiCamillo

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

— Jupiter Hammon

One becomes great by what one reads and not by what one writes

— Ritu Ghatourey

You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.

— Joseph Delaney

If you read all the time what other people have done, you will the think the way they thought.

— Richard Hamming

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread…

— James Russell Lowell

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

— S. I. Hayakawa

A lot of writing is thinking.

— Horton Foote