Don't ask why but...today is a quote day

Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out 
- Pam Allyn

He loves that reading has everything within his reach
- William Godwin

Writing, is the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the greatest invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space
 - Abraham Lincoln

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow
- Lawrence Clark Powell

Writing is only reading turned inside out
- John Updike

Every writer I know has trouble writing
- Joseph Heller

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know
- Alberto Manguel

She felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it
- Alan Bennett

Read to escape reality...write to embrace it
- Stephanie Connolly

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything
- Steven Wright

Reading feeds the soul, writing nourishes it
- Joanne McClean

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right
- Ray Bradbury

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands
- Neil Gaiman

Reading / writing is a chance to live a different life in a different world
- Tarang Sinha

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell
- Charles de Lint

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed
- Ernest Hemingway

We read to know that we are not alone
- C.S. Lewis

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body
- Joseph Addison

I can't get caught in my bubble of reading, writing, or music
- Antonio Banderas 

A room without books is like a body without a soul
- Cicero

There is just one rule: keep your readers reading
- Paula Munier

Reading is my pleasure; writing is my passion
- Joanne Weck