Reading Quote by Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

A lot of writing is thinking.

— Horton Foote

I am always reading or thinking about reading.

— Joyce Carol Oates

We write to discover what we think.

— Joan Didion

Writing is my way of diving deep into an issue. My approach is to watch, read and listen - sometimes for years - in…

— Paul Hawken

Thinking visually is my starting point, and then the writing happens.

— Gerard Way

What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallises into formal ideas but its earlier stages.

— Jean Dubuffet

In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.

— Catherine the Great

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid…

— Edward Gibbon

When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.

— Horace

I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.

— Susan Sontag

If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got…

— Ray Bradbury

When anything important has to be written ... I think your hand concentrates for you.

— Rebecca West