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If after you read something, you connect with it, you want to do it.

Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.

In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.

Typing and read receipts make a lot of sense for messaging. You write a letter, you put it in an envelope, you send it to a friend, and you want to know when they get it. It's like FedEx - they let you know when the package gets dropped off.

The process of receiving information for me is seeing, hearing, and feeling their energy in my frame of reference. That doesn't mean I see the individual, unfortunately.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

You know when you're writing, and it's just you and the computer screen, and you never think that anyone is ever going to read it... you're able to say private things when you're writing.