Steve Toltz Quotes

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Whenever there's an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to encourage other writers to write and encourage folks to read more and get connected to it in a personal way, it's a positive thing.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'

Man is what he reads.

Books guided my life from high school, and the greatest, most interesting, most provocative, funniest, smartest people who ever lived in the last 200 or 300 years wrote those books. I would fall in love with Victor Hugo and read not just 'Les Miserables,' but 'Bug-Jargal' and 'The Toilers of the Sea' and so forth.

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

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

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.

Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

That's what this country needs -- more books!

I have a huge passion for literature.

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.

Books do furnish a room.

Like most authors, I also love to read.

I love my books.

I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.