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Hard writing makes easy reading.

Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the bit that wasn't made up. This is because real life is under no obligation to be convincing.

Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.

Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration

You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn.

Writing should be meaningful for children, Y an intrinsic need should be aroused in them, and Y writing should be incorporated into a task that is necessary and relevant.

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.

A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true of every subject.

When I was 8, I was reading a book in which it was snowing. When I looked outside, I expected there to be snow on the ground. I thought, "This is the most powerful thing I can do! I'm going to be a writer."

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's true whether you're reading Shakespeare or bad vampire fiction-reading is always an act of empathy. It's always an imagining of what it's like to be someone else.

[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are choosing which symbols to use.

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have, it's the only way of learning how to write a story.

The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry_x000D__x000D_The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy_x000D__x000D_The books that people talk about we never can recall_x000D__x000D_And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.