Alive Quote by Nathalie Sarraute

Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is…

— Vladimir Nabokov

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles,…

— Robert Aris Willmott

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it…

— Margaret Mahy

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

— Zadie Smith

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

— Stephen King

Only a very specific kind of writer keeps their reader in mind while working. Such writers don't want to irk their readers; they don't…

— Sarnath Banerjee

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 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 a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.

— Madeleine L'Engle