Reading Quotes - Page 16

Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.

I look at words as if they were entities, sacred beings. There are words to which I tip my hat when I see them sitting on a page.

A Writer is Actor, Creator, Director & Producer Of HIS Life. Ask ME anything.

Poetry is not for profit. Poetry is for Posterity.

'Books had always been my best friends and all I wanted to do was lose myself in them, and better yet if the worlds and characters were of my own making.'

I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I'm just delighted they're reading them at all!

We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.

Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.

Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.

Digital distribution has widened the reading world.

What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and binding and shipping, renewed and available whenever we open it.

When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.

Writing barely differs from Talking and Reading. It appoints your hand while they engage your mouth and eyes respectively. The trio need the mind to combine sensible words from a meaningful arrangement of the ‘simple’ A B C to Z.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

I don't believe in writer's block. Who can function working seven days a week at at job. It's the same with writing. Take a break and let the words come to you. It rarely comes if you force it and if it does, you'll probably regret what you wrote down on paper.

Language spread its warm, absurd rays over all my adolescent thoughts, and I felt the way we all long to feel: moody, lonely, lovesick and explosive with the prospects of tomorrow.

I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check.

Every story is entitled to have a ‘happily ever after’ ending. However, not all characters are so deserving.

Books allow one to jump into another person's imagination while also exploring their own!

The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else - grants you access to their head, their thoughts, their secrets.