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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It’s like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You... Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott quote: "Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They..."
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. Anne Lamott
Gertrude Stein quote: "Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing."
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing. Gertrude Stein
I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other. John McGahern
Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy. Anita Desai
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act. Margaret Mahy
Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind. Nicholas Sparks
Stephen King quote: "The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read."
The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read. Stephen King
I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these characters and observe these events in real life? Is this story an experience worth living through for its own sake? Is the pleasure of contemplating these characters an end itself? Ayn Rand
We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up. Mary Oliver
What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
William Shakespeare quote: "To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write..."
To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. William Shakespeare
Adrienne Rich quote: "You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it."
You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it. Adrienne Rich
Your favorite occupation? Travel in contested territory. Hard-working writing and reading when safely home, in the knowledge that an amusing friend is later coming to dinner. Christopher Hitchens
Jeanette Winterson quote: "If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you..."
If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you. Jeanette Winterson

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