Anna Quindlen Quotes

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

I guess the important thing for young writers is to read.

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.

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

I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read.

I love my job, and I love books. I read anything, including cereal boxes. I care deeply about what people think of my books, and I memorize my reviews. I love to hear from my readers.

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

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

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful.

I love to read, and I've always loved to write.

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could find.

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

A man I know who writes and aspires to be a novelist does very little reading, and he's not that successful. But I think it's because he's like the kid who wants to be a ballplayer and never goes to the ballpark or tries to hit a ball. So I'd say reading is the most important thing that I do, besides the actual writing. I'm always asking as I read, "How did the writer do this? Why do I suddenly have tears in my eyes? Why am I crying?"

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

I'm not a writer. I like being a reader.

I love to read. I was in AP English in high school, and we were assigned books every few months. 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' are two of my favorite ones.

Like most authors, I also love to read.

I love books, and I love to read, and I had ideas for books that I thought would be neat to read.

I read mostly poetry.

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

Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.