Friendship Quote by Stephen Koch

“Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“He liked to say that what makes literature is “inventing truly from honestly acquired knowledge, so that what you make up is truer than…

— Paul Hendrickson

“I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations.”

— Mary Shelley

“As human beings, we have an innate need to create and innovate from within ourselves to address our own concerns, and writing helps fulfill…

— Suman Pokhrel

“The reader must not imagine that he is to find in it wisdom, brilliancy, fertility of invention, ingenuity of construction, excellence of form, purity…

— Mark Twain

“The inventor...looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to…

— Alexander Graham Bell

“A writer should be read, not seen, as they seldom are a joy to the eye. ”

— Katarina Anhava

One must be an inventor to read well.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Because reading is a selfish activity, writing must be unselfish, a gift to the reader.”

— Oscar Patton

“I thought and pondered -- vainly. I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies…

— Mary Shelly

“It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read,…

— Samuel Johnson

“Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write.”

— David Rose