Margaret Atwood Quotes

Reading taught me how to write.

…she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

What is reading but silent conversation?

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.

I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

Reading is a huge part of life.

What is reading, but silent conversation.

Reading is No. 1 - I have to read, or I can't write.

I think writing and reading are completely synergistic; not necessarily in that one has to be a good reader to be a good writer or vice versa, but that they so inform each other.

In reading, we are both scientists and poets.

For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it.

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

When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author.

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.