Quotes on Writing And Reading

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is rather primarily a lived and historically changing set of distinctive social practices. It is in these practices that 'content' is generated, debated, and transformed via certain distinctive ways of thinking, talking, valuing, acting, and, often, writing and reading.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.