Kerry Washington Quotes

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

Reading taught me how to write.

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

I grew up watching my father work, and learning from him what good quality is. I took from him the passion to create beautiful and exclusive products. He also taught me to persevere if I want to reach my goals.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

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

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

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

I actually love physics, but art is where I thought I could make a difference for my country.

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

My father encouraged me to work in the library, just because it was the world that he knew. But I also wanted to do it. I also wanted to work in the library and be part of the library somehow, because it represented a world that really wasn't represented in my home, and I wanted it to be.

Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.

If you took my reading and writing out of my head, I don't know who I would be.

My father's mother really had a profound influence on me. She literally began her day with an hour of reading. But the most fundamental impact was education.

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.

I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.

What my father gave me more than anything else is great tutoring and a great brain, frankly. You know, my father's brother was a top person at MIT, went to MIT, graduated from MIT, was a teacher at MIT, a professor at MIT, a great engineer. I mean, you know, I have very good genes.

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.

My mother sent me to speech classes, but the other kids still teased me. I was shy. I stooped. Instead of talking, I kept journals. That's where my love of words comes from. I majored in journalism.

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

I've been blessed to have an amazing mom and two amazing sisters - so they set a very high standard.