David Nicholls Quotes

It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly be said to exist.

Reading is more important than writing.

For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!

It's just a matter of me opening up the page and whatever is written on the page, that's what I'm here to do.

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

What is reading, but silent conversation.

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

I think writing and reading are completely synergistic; not necessarily in that one has to be a good reader to be a good writer or vice versa, but that they so inform each other.

What is reading but silent conversation?

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have, it's the only way of learning how to write a story.

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

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

Reading taught me how to write.

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

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

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

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

Teaching regularly has made me an even more adept reader, I think. The kind of teaching I do is more like editing than anything else. The kind of editing book editors used to do before lunch. The kind of editing I used to do as a radio documentary maker.

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

Some people read. I like to put words together.

I like to read and understand.