Steve Earle Quotes

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

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've always been a reader and a writer.

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

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

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

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

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

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

Learned to read, and for a while as a kid, you think books are just leaves on trees. Then suddenly, you think a human being is making that, and maybe you could do that.

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could find.

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

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

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life.

If I don't have words, it's a sign I'm not reading enough.

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

Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.

I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love.

While reading 'David Copperfield' in the middle of the night - probably because of the light, I had insomnia for the first time - I looked out of the window and thought, 'If this is what books can do, this is what I want to do.'

I cannot live without books.

I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful.

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.