Rex Stout Quotes

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

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.

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

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

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

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

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

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

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

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.

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

Reading and writing isn't supposed to be this exclusive club; it's just supposed to be entertaining.

I absolutely love reading.

Some people read. I like to put words together.

Writing is more important than being a writer.

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

You really can’t write unless you read. You have to know what the game is all about.

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.