Intellectual Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

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

“Reading is a dialog with oneself; it is self-reflection, which cultivates profound humanity. Reading is therefore essential to our development. It expands and enriches…

— Daisaku Ikeda

Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“The ability to read, society tells us, contributes to success in education, employment, and citizenship. Reading is a democratic craft. Writing, in contrast, is…

— Roy Peter Clark

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of…

— Cynthia Heimel

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

— Stephen King

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

Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind…

— Ben Okri

There is more to literacy than 'reading' and 'writing'.

— Strive Masiyiwa

Reading means borrowing.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.

— Michel Houellebecq