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When I write, I tend to read it out loud to myself after. I'm a very uncomfortable reader, so it creates a distance between the text and me - it is a new way to see it.

— Bill Clegg

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

— Steven Wright

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

— Jean M. Auel

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

— Manuel Puig

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.

— James St. James

Writing, for me, is a very fluid process. I sit down and wait for the words to come. They usually do - in buckets and waves. I look upon it as a blessing because the words come so easily.

— Sharon Draper

People read stuff over your shoulder when you're in public, and when you write the kind of stuff I do, and people read it over your shoulder, it makes you a little self-conscious.

— Chelsea Cain

When I write, it's like watching a movie in my head.

— Simone Elkeles

I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.

— James Salter

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

— Khaled Hosseini

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Catherine the Great