Reading Quotes - Page 6

To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a familiar route. To read is to travel through that terrain with the author as a guide- a guide one might not always agree with or trust, but who can at least be counted on to take one somewhere.

I love pop culture - the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that.
That's why I said I don't like elitism.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Keep on reading, thinking, doing and writing!
Words keep introducing their friends to you.

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.

If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies - Tolkien didn’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies, he read books on Finnish philology. Go and read outside of your comfort zone, go and learn stuff.

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well.....problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read.

Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don’t like it.

Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve.

A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.

The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.

One Lifetime is not enough.

We can learn to pay attention, concentrate, devote ourselves to authors. We can slow down so we can hear the voice of texts, feel the movement of sentences, experience the pleasure of words-and own passages that speak to us. (p. 41)

To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.

Both reading and writing are experiences-lifelong- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.

I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones.

The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects.

Let All Your Life’s Experiences Lead To More Writing & Encourage More Reading..!