Garry Disher Quotes

You can't write if you don't read.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

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.

What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

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

I grew up loving books and stories. Reading became my favourite pastime, and you have to be a reader before you can be a writer.

I'm a voracious reader, I'm always studying.

I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.

I guess the important thing for young writers is to read.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

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.

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

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

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.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

I read a lot as a kid and in high school.

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

I can't actually wrap my mind around it easily - I can't really visualize what 2 million books looks like... So I try to keep it real for myself by focusing on individual anecdotes of how my books have helped kids learn to love reading.

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

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

I love to read, and I've always loved to write.

Reading is No. 1 - I have to read, or I can't write.