The purpose of this study is to remind people of the relation between reading and writing, and between reading ability and writing ability based on the Mikhail Bakhtin`s concept of answerability. Answerability is a useful concept which can explain nicely the aspect of conversion from reading to writing. Bakhtin used the term “answerability” as “answerability as responsibility” in his early books and then as “answerability as response” in his later books. In this paper, focus is placed on the latter meaning for development. Bakhtin emphasized reader`s response and active understanding on a continual basis. He criticized passive understanding in which the intention of the author or the text are just copied into the mind of the readers as it is, he instead emphasized responsive understanding such as the agreement, sympathy, objection and implementation of the readers. The most typical case of responsive understanding is writing. Reading education shall not be restricted to the accurate understanding of the text but it shall go forward to writing based on the reader`s responsive understanding. In addition, writing at this time shall not be writing as a tool assisting reading practices but individualistic writing with the student`s own unique purpose, voice, and audience.