Able Quote by Penelope Lively

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

“The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease and intimacy with the process of writing; one comes to the country of…

— Stephen King

I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about…

— Ice Cube

“To enjoy and learn from what you read you must understand the meanings of the words a writer uses. You do yourself a grave…

— Charles Harrington Elster

I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.

— John Malkovich

“Reading is a dialog with oneself; it is self-reflection, which cultivates profound humanity. Reading is therefore essential to our development. It expands and enriches…

— Daisaku Ikeda

“There is massive evidence that self-selected reading, or reading what you want to read, is responsible for most of our literacy development. Readers have…

— Krashen Stephen D

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we…

— John Green

in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance to do…

— Natalie Babbitt

Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.

— Pat Conroy

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

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

— Jeff Bezos