Ann Voskamp Quotes

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

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

Reading taught me how to write.

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family - poor, in fact.

I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.

I have always advised men to read.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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.

I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life.

We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then they could go home and look it up.

I feel like if I'm going to take time reading, I better be learning.

I spend a lot of time reading.

I'm a voracious reader, I'm always studying.

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'.

By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.

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.

It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.

I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.