Bobby Knight Quotes

My mother taught me how to write.

I love to write. English is my favorite subject in school.

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

Reading taught me how to write.

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher.

When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was not exactly true. I want other kids to read and write more all over the world, because it helps them to understand things better.

Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.

The idea there were kids out there who didn't love to read and write just as much as I did struck me. So I went around schools and tried to make other kids love to read and write.

It seems like just yesterday my son was hiding under the table to avoid reading. Now, he's writing books longer than mine!

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.

The only time I felt I was different was when one of my friends said, 'I hate reading' and I stared at her like, 'What kind of an alien creature are you?!' Because it was so incomprehensible to me that someone could dislike reading! That really started my desire to help other children love reading and writing.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

I wasn't very academically inclined, growing up as a child, and the only subject I was good at was English. I had a flair for it, since I came from a literary background.

I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.' Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.

Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

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

I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write.