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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.

All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.

Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

I've always been a reader and a writer.