Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.
Verlyn KlinkenborgTag: reading writing writers creativity editing
Coleridge wrote a poem called ‘The Eolian Harp,’ in which he explored the notion of music slumbering on its instrument. It's a gorgeous poem! It moves through thoughts and moods of the soul as if we're all but harps waiting for a breeze to pass through us to animate us. I feel the same way about art: that it is something that on many levels colonises you, gets inside you and changes you from the inside out. I find that happens with books, too. After I’ve read a book, for a couple of days afterwards I think in the patterns of the book’s writing, because the act of reading is an act of organising your own thought process. If you are reading someone else’s writing, you are having to organise your perception along someone else’s structure. So if I read a book by Terry Pratchett, a few days later there is still a little Terry Pratchettness to my thoughts. When I read something by Catherynne Valente, for quite a few days there is a kind of ‘jewelled’ quality to my thoughts. To read a book is to let someone else reach inside me and reorganise me. As a writer, I find it very difficult to start writing immediately after having read another writer's book. I have to digest it first, and let the influence pass…
Amal El-MohtarTag: reading books writing inspiration influences
I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.
György LigetiReading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.
Jonathan FranzenTag: reading integrity isolation growth self-knowledge social-change
With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
Doris LessingTag: reading freedom political-commentary love-of-reading
I can read. A little. I kind of protested it in School(TM). On the grounds that the silent 'E' is stupid.
M.T. AndersonTag: reading school english silent-e
The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it's hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you'll never reach bottom. It's not like it's the end of the world -- just the world as you think you know it.
Rita DoveRead anything, as long as you can't wait to pick it up again.
Nick HornbyTag: reading
I like to read and write because it is the ONLY thing that takes my mind off of the real world and my spinning worries. It is a time I can be free of anxiety, worry, and stress. When my life gets hectic I HAVE to read and write or I'll drown.
Shandy L. KurthTag: reading writing freedom stress anxiety author pressure
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There's a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day.
Lauren MorrillTag: humor reading introverts
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