Culture Quote by Jennifer Egan

I am not read well, but when I do read, I read well.

— Kurt Cobain

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means by which…

— David Simon

We all know that reading is an invaluable life skill. It is vital for children in their education and as they take their place…

— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

Writing well has everything to do with being able to read one's own work with an eye toward the unmet possibilities that are there.

— Lucy Calkins

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually…

— Craig Johnson

Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be missing a crucial point:…

— Hugh Mackay

Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated,…

— Thomas S. Monson

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

Not writing is as important as writing - go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.

— Veronica Roth

“At times I wondered whether writing was not a solipsistic luxury in countries like mine, where there were scant readers, so many people who…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

We read often with as much talent as we write.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson