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I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing. -- Rex Stout
I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television. -- Johnny Cash
If your work is done on the phone, then surely you can set up some kind of wireless system. If your work involves reading or writing reports, then this too could be done outside. -- Tom Hodgkinson
In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing. -- Oliver Sacks
You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing. -- Lynda Barry
Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing -- Christopher Hitchens
[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are choosing which symbols to use. -- John Green
I will always respect the beliefs of fellow Christians who aren't comfortable reading or writing explicit love scenes, but I believe romances are beautiful and spiritual books that celebrate the best of what love has to offer and mirror the love God has for his children. -- Teresa Medeiros
At eleven I was at the peak of my creative powers: I was writing stories and playlets, putting together poetryprojects. I was absorbed by my 'work.' At twelve I was no longer reading or writing, just counting off days and checking them off. I was interested in survival. -- Todd Solondz
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. -- Benjamin Franklin
I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music. -- Antonio Banderas
I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing. -- Sara Gruen
I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. -- Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
I'm not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children. -- Jami Attenberg
I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers. -- Carol Anshaw
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. -- Thomas a Kempis
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. -- Benjamin Franklin
Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer. -- Avi
When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery. -- Lynn Abbey
It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated. -- Jonathan Franzen
I know you're supposed to hide your influences, but I suppose I see writing as riffing, really, about whatever you have been reading or thinking about that day or that week. -- Steve Toltz
An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily. -- Hudson Stuck
When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies. -- Irvine Welsh
Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing. -- Ally Carter
I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time. -- Lalla Ward
Because of social media, we have a lot of personal essays floating around; you see them on Facebook: everyone's either reading them or writing them. Some of them are great; some of them are diary entries put forth as essays. -- Meghan Daum
When I'm not writing or reading, I'm thinking about both. -- Joseph Brodsky
Reading, writing, eating and sleeping; either makes you crazy or scholar. -- M.F. Moonzajer
By elevating your reading, you will improve your writing or at least tickle your thinking. -- William Safire
Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing. -- Brandon Sanderson
Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good. -- William Zinsser
Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God. -- Rumi
A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one. -- Emily Barton
if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading -- Abraham Lincoln
A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this. -- Jane Smiley
When I'm not writing music, I'm playing guitar, or reading philosophy. So all I have left is just an hour or two for Claudia Schiffer. -- Richard Pinhas
The people who encouraged me weren't necessarily writers or readers themselves. They were people who were just pleased to see me devote my life to reading and writing. -- Pankaj Mishra

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