Are writing and reading conversations?

When you get involved in a conversation, you share your point of view about the topic of the conversation and you also learn what others say. And I believe writing and reading are a conversation among all those who write and those who read. When you read a text, you are not just reading the information that the text is providing you with but the words of the people who wrote it. You read what they feel, believe, and think about a certain topic. And when you are reading, you start to reflect on and to analyze the thoughts of the writers. Then, you give a response to his or her ideas and thoughts. Your response may either agree or disagree with what they think, but you are responding to them anyway; and that is the moment whent the conversation takes place. This conversation may be something we do not realize at all because we are used to an answer-response conversation, but it does happen when you read and write. And it is the same situation with writing. You communicate your ideas, needs, interests, values, feelings, etc, to others and you might not get a response right after you wrote your article or book, but it will be there, soon or later, when someone else gets to read your text. Whoever gets to read it will respond to your ideas just as you do when you read someone else's article. It is kind of a cycle. And when we read, as Downs and Wardle say, we have to see our sources as people speaking and use verbs such as argues, states, claims, believes, rather than "the book says". If we want to become good readers, we need to start the habit of thinking of the text as people. It may be kind of weird to refer to a book as if it was a person, but it will help us to start our conversation and to understand what the writer is trying to say.