James Lipton Quotes

Each kid is unique in what captures their attention and their passion.

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

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

If you took my reading and writing out of my head, I don't know who I would be.

Every day, teachers across the country excite their students with new opportunities and experiences.

When I start my class I ask the students to write their signatures on pieces of paper and put them on a table. I have them look at them, and I point out, "They're all different, aren't they? That's you, that's you, that's you, that's you."

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

Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work.

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.

Games shouldn't only be fun. They should teach or spark an interest in other things.

Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

Reading taught me how to write.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.

Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.