Joe Meno Quotes

A book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating word to image, connecting these images to memories, dreams, and larger ideas. Television, film, even the stage play, have already been imagined for us, but the book, in whatever form we choose to interact with it, forces us to complete it.

Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create.

Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

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

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

I just want to sit in my room and write books.

When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

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

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

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

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

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.

I love books, and I love to read, and I had ideas for books that I thought would be neat to read.

I loved stories as a kid, both being read to me and enjoying on my own. All these stories inspired my imagination, and that's what I have always aimed at doing for my readers: ignite their imaginations.

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.

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.

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.