Active Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is…

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Stephen King

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

— Sara Sheridan

“the good reader is one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense–-”

— Vladimir Nabokov

Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds,…

— Ben Okri

A writer is a reader moved to emulation.

— Saul Bellow

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present…

— Julian Barnes

Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it…

— Margaret Mahy

A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.

— William Maxwell

Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.

— T.C. Boyle