Maya Hawke Quotes

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

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.

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 know what not being able to read can do to a child's confidence.

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

I've not chosen to learn to read print. I can read simple words but it's so tedious.

You can't write if you don't 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.

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

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.

We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can't remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn't include books.

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.

My mother taught me to read.

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 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 know a lot of writers who tell me they 'always' knew how to read. They can't remember a time before reading. And those writers make me want to tear my hair out.

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 had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited to study journalism in college. I love editorials and documentaries. All of that came from being given the opportunity to lose myself in good writing when I was a kid.

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

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

I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.

It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.