Avi Quotes

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

For me, reading is reading.

Reading is No. 1 - I have to read, or I can't write.

To write you had to read so I backed into reading.

…she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.

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

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

I love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.

Reading taught me how to write.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

I have always advised men to read.

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

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

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

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

I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.

I think writing and reading are completely synergistic; not necessarily in that one has to be a good reader to be a good writer or vice versa, but that they so inform each other.

I like to read and understand.

What we read, how we read, and why we read change how we think.

I'm actually not that big a fan of reading.

I try to read as much as I can.

I don't care what you read, as long as you're reading something 'cause when you read somethin', you're learning somethin'.