Zadie Smith Quotes

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have, it's the only way of learning how to write a story.

a good reader makes a good book

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.

There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

I think writing and reading are completely synergistic; not necessarily in that one has to be a good reader to be a good writer or vice versa, but that they so inform each other.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!

Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel is, the less conscious you will be of its devices. It's worth trying to figure those devices out, however: they might come in useful in your own work.

…she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.

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.

I'm not really a good reader. What I mean is, I think I'm not one of those people who can read a story and analyze it just like that.

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.

I take a real interest in the possibilities of teaching - including the practice of bringing creative writing, and serious reading, into the classroom. I am persuaded that since language is alive, much of the challenge has already been met by the poets and novelists we read.

Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.

We are the worst of fools if we do not teach every child to become truly expert, deep readers.

I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader.

Good readers make much out of little.

We read often with as much talent as we write.

Better readers are better thinkers.

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

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 read part of it all the way through.