Ian Doescher Quotes

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

People do write books.

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

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

I think that kids are a wonderful, wonderful reader to have in your head.

Books, the children of the brain.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

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.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.

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.

It's a wonderful thing to write for children.

People don't care about books. They care about ideas.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

I'm inspired by many different things. Often, I'm inspired by experiences I've had, books I've read, people I've met, stories I've heard.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

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

All my life, books have felt alive; some more so than people, or rather, some people. Alive - this has to do with me, I know, and not the books - in a way that some people aren't. Alive as teachers, alive as minds, alive as imaginative triggers.

I was taught Shakespeare brilliantly by an eccentric genius at Harrow named Jeremy Lemmon who made me want to be a writer.

Reading and writing isn't supposed to be this exclusive club; it's just supposed to be entertaining.

I find teaching to be a great way to keep everything in perspective and to help give back. It's also a lot of fun and creatively invigorating.

Books should be both enlightening and entertaining.

Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a story because otherwise, it's stuck in this book and it's boring and it's academic and I'm not against intelligence and I'm not against education, I don't want to be misunderstood, but we have tell the stories to our young people a little bit early and history gives us a lot of things.

People who read are people who dream, and we connect through the stories we live and tell and read.

All I ever wanted to do was music, and all I've ever asked, as I've gotten to know and discover the world more, is that God would use me in any way to encourage and inspire love and inspire people to bring and give love to each other.