Books Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

One must be an inventor to read well.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

— Richard Ford

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

— Stephen King

We read often with as much talent as we write.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing is the great invention of the world.

— Abraham Lincoln

When I read students’ attempts at creative writing it is obvious immediately that most of them have not read much or widely. The aspiring…

— Julius Lester

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position…

— E. L. Doctorow

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

— Carl Sagan