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Tag: reading, writing

Steven Spielberg

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

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Through our reading we can travel to other times and other places, into other peoples minds and hearts and souls: it is a transcendent experience.

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Write when you can’t stop writing. Read when you stopped writing!

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Reading is very creative – it’s not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it.

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‎If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

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Jeanette Winterson

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.

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A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or the dying. But worse was to come. For once the disease of reading has laid hold upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

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I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.

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أحلام مستغانمي

فكم من الأشياء قد تحدث لنا بسبب ما نقرأ.ذلك أن ثمة قراءات تفعل بنا فعل الكتابة، وتوصلنا إلى حيث لا نتوقع !

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I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they “don’t have time to read.” This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn’t have time to buy any rope or pitons.

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Patricia Duncker

The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.

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Nancy M. Malone

You do what you were made to do. Some of us were made to read and write. Thanks be to God.

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