Reading Quotes - Page 4

You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford to give you this. This does not break me.

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects.

A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget.

I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.

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

I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.

Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it.

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.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.

He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.

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

Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is going to suck.

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.

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.

In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have been astonished by how few people - people who supposedly want to write - read books, and if they read them, how little they examine them.

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

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

When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.