Robert Cormier Quotes

You can't write if you don't read.

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.

I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful.

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could find.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

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.

I love my job, and I love books. I read anything, including cereal boxes. I care deeply about what people think of my books, and I memorize my reviews. I love to hear from my readers.

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

It's wonderful being an author and having so many kids enjoying my books. That's always been my dream job, and I feel very lucky to be able to do it.

I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.

I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love.

While reading 'David Copperfield' in the middle of the night - probably because of the light, I had insomnia for the first time - I looked out of the window and thought, 'If this is what books can do, this is what I want to do.'

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.