Jon Scieszka Quotes

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

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

Only a reader can become a writer. Develop a lively intellect and the ability to become interested in anything, no matter how mundane it might seem at first. Look for the story. Develop an eye for detail. Feed your mind and your brain: learn as much as you can about everything you can.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

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.

Reading taught me how to write.

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

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

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

If you're going to write, you're going to have to force yourself to really study the world.

Reading is No. 1 - I have to read, or I can't write.

I don't know what else teaches you as much as writing. Perhaps reading. So if I don't have one or the other in the course of the day, I feel old.

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

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

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

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

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

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

I like learning things, and I like that writing comics is an excuse to look into new stuff and research and learn new things and hopefully put them in books.

For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.