Ann Packer Quotes

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

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

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

Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.

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

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

Reading taught me how to write.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

May books spread the world over!

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

Reading is a huge part of life.

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

I've always been a reader and a writer.

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

Books still accomplish miracles; they persuade men.

Learned to read, and for a while as a kid, you think books are just leaves on trees. Then suddenly, you think a human being is making that, and maybe you could do that.

You really can’t write unless you read. You have to know what the game is all about.

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.

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

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

I always love writing about children.

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.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

I love my books.