Nathalie Sarraute Quotes

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

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

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

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

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 went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

The value of a good education has never left me.

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was not exactly true. I want other kids to read and write more all over the world, because it helps them to understand things better.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

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!

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

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

Cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them.

Universities are the temple through which alone lies the road to that of Liberty.

I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career.

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

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