Reading Quote by Téa Obreht

“Reading is a way to escape the real world. Writing is a way to create a new one.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

“A writer's will is the winds of dead calm in the Western Lands. Point way out he can start stirring of the sail. Writer,…

— William S. Burroughs

Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails...

— William Petersen

“If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“no writing is a waste of time--no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.”

— Brenda Ueland

“Novel writing, I soon discovered, is like channel swimming: a slow and steady stroke over a long distance in a cold, dark sea. If…

— Ann Patchett

“Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the…

— Madelaine Standing

“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

“Nothing is easier to write than scenery; nothing more difficult and unnecessary to read.”

— Jerome K. Jerome

“You get no writing done at all if you sit at a table with a view. You'd spent the whole time watching the birds…

— Mary Stewart

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

— Oscar Patton