Books Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

We often read with as much talent as we write.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.

— Roy Peter Clark

Good writing comes from good talent.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

— Richard Ford

Reading for writers is like training for athletes.

— Linda Sue Park

We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate…

— Elizabeth Berg

“The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.”

— Sara Sheridan

If you want to write, you write. Talent is simply not enough.

— Jane Yolen

People who say they read more write better.

— Stephen D. Krashen

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.

— Patricia T. O'Conner

We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead…

— Julia Cameron