Inspirational Reading And Writing Quotes & Sayings

A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a degree, your sanity. Writing novels worth reading will bugger up your mind, jeopardize your relationships, and distend your life. You have been warned. — David Mitchell

Let All Your Life's Experiences Lead To More Writing & Encourage More Reading..! — Sujit Lalwani

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer. — Jean M. Auel

I have lived in worlds beyond counting and countries as strange and wonderful as the dance of dust in sunbeams, because I have lived in books. — Garon Whited

Reading sparks writing. — A.D. Posey

People say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes a mighty quotation is worth more than a thousand pictures. — Jakub Marian

Live a life worth reading about. Then write it. — Chris Campanioni

Words will change your future — Jade

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading. — Eudora Welty

Reading is soap for the soul; writing is the scrubbing. — Richard Milleville

By reading, we will know the minds of great soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Reading opens up other pockets of the mind. — A.D. Posey

Don't be afraid to write and share your story with the reading world! Find your courage! It is a fact that some will love it and some will hate it, but there will always be at least one reader who needed it and that's all that matters! — S.L. Morgan

Your story must told.
Live a life legacy- written book or notes.
This will be there for many generations to know your rich experiences and knowledge. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Every child should be taught how to read, write and think. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Through writing, an author opens the window of his heart through which a reader can see the inner self of the author. — Debasish Mridha

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. ( ... )
A good novel editor is invisible. — Terri Windling

Inspiration for what we produce comes from reading, observing the world of humans around us and also the animal kingdom — Walt Disney Company

This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-fly-apart-disintegrate! The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, by reading your story, will catch fire, too? — Ray Bradbury

To be original is not creating your own idea; it's the essence of the idea in the reader's mind. — Kaela Marooney

Cry while writing it, and readers will cry while reading it. — A.D. Posey

I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?' I've been writing about a subject I love as long as I can remember
horses and the people associated with them, anyplace, anywhere, anytime. I couldn't be happier knowing that young people are reading my books. But even more important to me is that I've enjoyed so much the writing of them. — Walter Farley

How you feel after reading something indicates not what you've read but where you are at. — A.D. Posey

Wide reading is important. You don't have to like it, but it's important to grapple with things you don't understand. I've been spending the last six months getting up an hour early to try to understand economics because I need to. I don't want to be one of these bewildered schmucks. The things that you understand will inform your writing. The bigger your mind, the better your work is going to be. You're not born with a big mind; you have to build it. If I don't read for an hour a day, I get ill. — Jeanette Winterson

Recall, then, some event that has left a distinct impression on you
how at the corner of the street, perhaps, you passed two people talking. A tree shook; an electric light danced; the tone of the talk was comic, but also tragic; a whole vision, an entire conception, seemed contained in that moment.
But when you attempt to reconstruct it in words, you will find that it breaks into a thousand conflicting impressions. — Virginia Woolf

The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book. — A.D. Posey

My friend says she's smart. She reads a book to fall asleep. — Nicholaa Spencer

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The more you read, the more you write, and the more you free yourself to do so, the better writer you will become. — A.D. Posey

Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity. — Donald J. Bingle

Reading books makes us more attentive to our personage and the aesthetic world that we live in. Writers that we idolize use language, logic, and nuance to paint physical and emotional scenes with refined precision. A writer's use of vivid language creates lingering aftereffects that work their wonder on the reader's malleable mind. A stirred mind resurrects our semiconscious memories; it causes us to summon up enduring images of our family, friends, and acquaintances. Just as importantly, inspirational writing makes us recognize our own telling character traits and identify our formerly unexpressed thoughts and feelings. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Read something worth writing about or write something worth reading about — Anonymous

Jenny is what people would call a "big girl." Jenny from screenwriting class. I watch how she lives in her own imperfect skin, recognizing her limitations but still going for what she wants and doing what she loves - writing, smoking, drinking coffee, eating cake, listening to rock 'n' roll, reading Shakespeare, and wearing cute, punky clothes, all despite being a "big girl." It's like she actually believes she has a right to be in this world. — Lisa Kotin

As an author the question I get asked the most is, "why do you write?" My knee jerk response is, "Because I love it," which is true, but not the whole truth.
So here is my revised response to that question; "I write for the thirteen year old me who hated reading and craved something different than the boring literature I was forced to read for school. I write to see something I want to read exist in the world. I write because it becomes unbearable to hold so many stories in my head without a way to express them, but most importantly, I write to be true to myself. — Day Parker

A book lives a new life every time it is read. — Brandon Sanderson

Maybe we should all just shut up and read a good book. — Mary Sisney

Don't be jealous, be agressive. Make 2012 yours! — Rachel Firasek

When entering a library, I never forget to bow down! — Avijeet Das

Education stimulates self-study. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over. In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Above all mediums, through which storytelling is conveyed, none has the potential to draw us in, to hold us spellbound, but the unassuming book. — Diana Jane Heath

Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn't want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, "good book," as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others. — Jack Gantos

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. — Victor J. Banis

Dear, Missus, Mister - I beg you never to give thoughts to war, in no way, not to work for it, not by writing nor by reading about it nor by looking at the pictures nor on the television about it. Not in any way ever, at all. Not by being a soldier, sailor, airman, work in factory or above all at atom bombs. Above all at atom bombs. No obligation for this, dear fellow creature. Signed Your Fellow Creature.'
'P.S.,' said Gerald slowly, without turning from the window, 'If we all do this, we shall succeed. — Stella Gibbons

You never know what will spark a student's interest and feed the flame of learning. For me, all subjects are connected: writing, reading, science, art, music, math, social studies. By presenting myself as a writer with wide ranging passions - for astronomy, volcanology, art, music, history, and community service - I hope to inspire not only budding writers but also budding scientists, artists, activists... — Elizabeth Rusch

Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader willingly or sometimes unwillingly goes through, until the reader finishes reading and sometimes even after that. — Arti Honrao

I am obsessed with reading and writing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Reading feeds the soul, writing nourishes it! — Joanne McClean

You should always have 2 books ... the one you're reading and the one you're writing. — Sterling W. Sill

Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it. — Stephanie Connolly