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Reading Writing Quotes (page 15)

This evening I begin a notebook. If anyone reads this, I trust they will forgive my overuse of "I". I can't stop it. I'm writing this. Jonathan Franzen
He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know. Annie Dillard
Stephen King quote: "You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the..."
You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself. Stephen King
Wallace Stegner quote: "Hard writing makes easy reading" - Crossing to safety."
Hard writing makes easy reading" - Crossing to safety. Wallace Stegner
I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don't take no stock in mathematics, anyway. Mark Twain
I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ovid quote: "or that writing a poem you can read to no oneis like dancing..."
or that writing a poem you can read to no oneis like dancing in the dark. Ovid
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures..."
The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading Vladimir Nabokov
David McCullough quote: "The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have..."
The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write. David McCullough
There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away in books that live more vividly than many men and women. There are phrases from literary works that have a positively human personality. There are passages from my own writing that chill me with fright, so distinctly do I feel them as people, so sharply outlined do they appear against the walls of my room, at night, in shadows….. I've written sentences whose sound, read out loud or silently... Fernando Pessoa
I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that? Ray Bradbury
When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope. Stephen King
She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself. She thought a writer should work harder writing a book that she did reading it. Jeffrey Eugenides
I'm very happy by myself--I'm lucky in that way--if I've got enough to read and something to write about and a bit of alcohol for me to add an edge, not to dull it. Christopher Hitchens
It was not uncommon to walk in the door of their home and find my mother sitting on the sofa reading over a manuscript with shampoo horns sculpted into her hair. Anne Sexton's voice would be blasting from the speakers. A woman who writes feels too much... Augusten Burroughs

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