Hilton Als Quotes

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

Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

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

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

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

What I love about research is when I'm having a bad day and I can't write, I'll just research some more, I'll learn some more and I'll have better command of the world of the film.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

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.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.

Read books. They are good for us.

Only a reader can become a writer. Develop a lively intellect and the ability to become interested in anything, no matter how mundane it might seem at first. Look for the story. Develop an eye for detail. Feed your mind and your brain: learn as much as you can about everything you can.

I grow old learning something new every day.

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

The book you don't read won't help.

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.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.