Chris Van Allsburg Quotes

Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.

If I couldn't read, I couldn't live.

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

Reading is important.

I like to read and understand.

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.

Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

I think literacy is everything.

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

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.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

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.

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.

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

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

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

In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

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