William Shenstone Quotes

All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

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.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

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

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I'd like my books to provide that connection for them.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was not exactly true. I want other kids to read and write more all over the world, because it helps them to understand things better.

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.

I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.

We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can't remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn't include books.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home.

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

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

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

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

Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer.

I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.

No matter how busy I am, I find time to read, day and night.