Janette Rallison Quotes

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

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.

When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'

I grew up loving books and stories. Reading became my favourite pastime, and you have to be a reader before you can be a writer.

I was as eager a writer as I was a reader.

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.

Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that I didn't love writing and reading. When I was really young, my mother would read poems to me. I loved Edgar Allan Poe - I am sure I didn't understand it, but I loved it.

I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to write poetry.

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.

No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.

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

I like that it's challenging - that when I'm writing, I feel as if I'm pouring everything I have into the story until there's nothing left and I have to begin thinking about a new world and set of circumstances to research and explore.

Sharon Shinn is a lover of words and a builder of worlds. She makes science-fiction seem like fantasy. Her characters jump off the page, finding their way under your skin and into your heart.

I find it heartening that readers are still excited about diving into a world.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

All that I did was to avail myself of the great privileges of the fiction writer, spring over every scientific difficulty with fancy’s seven-leagued boots, and create on paper what other men were planning out in steel and other metals.

The greatest texts, I think, first dazzle, then with careful rereading, they instruct. I have learned from Virginia Woolf more than I even know how to articulate.

I love to read, and I've always loved to write.

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

As a reader since very early, I have found myself drawn to rants.

I read prodigiously as a child, and I still do.