Harold Brodkey Quotes

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

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.

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.

Reading taught me how to write.

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

I've loved reading all my life.

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.

Some people read. I like to put words together.

I'm a big reader. And I take a lot of pictures, do a lot of writing.

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them.