Margaret Atwood Quotes

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

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

Comics have always helped people to read. A lot of people learned to read by reading the comics. And it's our livelihood, after all. If people don't know how to read, they're not reading our comics.

Writing and drawing comics for the sheer joy of it - that's true bliss.

I know a lot of writers who tell me they 'always' knew how to read. They can't remember a time before reading. And those writers make me want to tear my hair out.

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.

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.

I love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.

The idea there were kids out there who didn't love to read and write just as much as I did struck me. So I went around schools and tried to make other kids love to read and write.

I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

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

The real power of comics is writing as you draw.

The cornerstone of education is an easy system of reading and writing. The hey to this is the new Turkish alphabet based on the Latin script.

The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with the most perfect ease, so much so, that I have no recollection whatever of learning the alphabet

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

I grew up loving books and stories. Reading became my favourite pastime, and you have to be a reader before you can be a writer.

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

I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.

I've always liked writing. Even when I was in art school and thought I was going to be a gallery painter, I liked to pair my artwork with writing. And so that naturally led to drawing comics.

Suddenly, I was reading these comics. I was looking at those bubbles, those dialogue bubbles, and suddenly there were words... recognizable words.

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

You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.