Giacomo Casanova Quotes

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.

I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.

Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.

I do three things: speaking or teaching, which I enjoy the most, coaching is where I learn everything, and writing is where I reach people.

I do actually enjoy the process of putting my thoughts down on paper and having people actually read them.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

Writing is a great love of mine.

Reading taught me how to write.

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.

When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.

I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix Potter at bedtime. Writing seemed to me to be the only sensible way to live and be happy.

Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

I love to write.

I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.

To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.