Creative Quote by Margaret Mahy

Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds,…

— Ben Okri

Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over and over.…

— Gary Paulsen

I never remain passive in the process of reading: while I read I am engaged in a constant creative activity, which leads me to…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

“Reading is action. Even though it is often done quietly and alone, reading is a profoundly social activity, and a vigorous and demanding one.…

— J. Paul Hunter

“Reading thus introduces an "art" which is anything but passive.”

— Michel de Certeau

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do…

— Nathalie Sarraute

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

— Erica Jong

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their…

— Ben Okri

Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count…

— Bennett Cerf

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

— Khaled Hosseini

Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page…

— Katherine Paterson

Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks than from…

— John Dufresne