A few days ago
Anonymous

What do you think this quote means?

“We read often with as much talent as we write.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A few days ago
Meg

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The other two answers are correct, but Emerson was really into the fact that readers add as much content as writers. Writers put down their own reality in their own way, but once it’s there, it’s up to the reader to interpret it. Every reader has a different background and a different context, so every reader will get a different message from the same story.
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A few days ago
Anonymous
It sounds to me like it’s saying that often it takes a smart or talented person to interpret a piece of writing the right way.
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A few days ago
Anonymous
I think he’s saying there’s a direct correlation between how much a person reads and how much he/she writes, and vice versa. The more you read the better you are at writing, and the more you write the more you get out of what you read.
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A few days ago
Anonymous
It is often true that a reader understands what is written in his own way, but the author did’n intend to make it understood that way.

I think that only the author himsef knows what the stuff was written about.

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A few days ago
Jon
There is a correlation between the amount you read and the (intellectual/academic) content of what you write.
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A few days ago
Anonymous
I think it means Ralph had one too many.
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