Anthony Doerr Quotes

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

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

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

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

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.

Reading taught me how to write.

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

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

A novel can enlarge the empathy and imagination of both its author and its reader, and my experience, that sense of enlargement is most intense when I'm transported beyond the narrow limits of my daily life.

When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

Reading is a huge part of life.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously.

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

I've always been a reader and a writer.

I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.