Christina Baker Kline Quotes

I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read.

To write you have to be able to know how to put words together.

Reading taught me how to write.

Words are so lovable. How could you not love words?

I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!

Writing is a communication.

I have always, always loved words.

People do write books.

I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching.

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

If you can talk, you can write.

Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

Teaching regularly has made me an even more adept reader, I think. The kind of teaching I do is more like editing than anything else. The kind of editing book editors used to do before lunch. The kind of editing I used to do as a radio documentary maker.

To write, I think it is very important to read. The more you read, the more you know the techniques of writing.

I love to write. English is my favorite subject in school.

I want to write books.

If I weren't acting, I'd study journalism because I love to write.

One of the epiphanies I had was that I got into publishing because I love literature.

Some people read. I like to put words together.

I grew up with a love of words.

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

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