“Creative Reading” is a methodology within the perspective of Creative Writing discipline. It attempts to provide a new interpretive framework for authors’ literary reading based on the theories of “Creative Ontology” and “Everyone Can Write” from the perspective of a writer. This framework aims to enhance the effectiveness and quality of authors’ reading. As a meta-reading theory, Creative Reading emphasizes the creativity and subjectivity of reading, encouraging deep interactions between readers and texts to foster unique reading experiences. It represents a higher level of reading proficiency that transcends and elevates knowledge-based and appreciation-based reading. Creative Reading amalgamates readers’ literary literacy, reading experience, and immediate aesthetic experiences, facilitating deep contemplation of texts. Ultimately, these elements are integrated and elevated into individual creative capabilities. Creative Reading entails analyzing and appreciating the “imagined author” through the narrative behavior of the actual author, while distinguishing the imagined author from the real author and characters. The path to achieving Creative Reading lies in deeply exploring the imagined author's imagery and narrative strategies beyond the surface level of the text. This enables a more comprehensive understanding of the work and grasp of the real author's creative techniques and ideologies. Creative Reading emphasizes that readers should transcend typical appreciation-based and knowledge-based reading levels to trace and analyze the presence and influence of the imagined author within the text. This deeper exploration unveils the essence and charm of literary works.