Art Quote by Julian Barnes

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

In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are still a…

— F. R. Leavis

“I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books. There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers – there always were. Reading…

— Julian Barnes

We read often with as much talent as we write.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

— Garry Disher

We often read with as much talent as we write.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

— Zadie Smith

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

— Edwin Louis Cole

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

— Richard Ford

Books are the true means of acquiring talent. If one does not read one remains ignorant, and ignorance can never produce true painters.

— Francesco Albani

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

— Barack Obama