Paul Auster Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

I'm not a writer. I like being a reader.

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

We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate good writing: by reading.

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.

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.

If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize.

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

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

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

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

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

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.

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

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

In Sydney, I gave what was billed as a masterclass to bright students of writing at the University of Sydney. But the term 'masterclass' was possibly over-egging the pudding. All I could do was pass on some lessons from my own life, and the most obvious is that if you want to be a writer, you must first have been a reader.

The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.