Art Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

— Samuel Johnson

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

— Sydney Pollack

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

— Virginia Woolf

Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.

— John Cheever

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

— Hugh Prather

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present…

— Julian Barnes

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

— Vladimir Nabokov

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A…

— Maurice Blanchot

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

— John Cheever

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

— Anonymous

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely…

— Robert Louis Stevenson