Sonia Levitin Quotes

Write about what you want to know.

If you read, the world is your oyster. It truly is. Reading makes everything possible.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.

What's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all of us, not just writers, there is a sort of knowledge of the other. We have a lot more in common than we realize, and I think writing is really a sustained act of empathy.

Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me makes me want to figure things out.

I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you're doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

A personal library is a reflection of who you are and who you want to be, of what you value and what you desire, of how much you know and how much more you'd like to know.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

I love to see new things, and I love to learn. I always learn so much when I travel - that's the best thing.

A child's greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Travel teaches as much as books.

Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.

Libraries raised me.