Sherman Alexie Quotes

To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing.

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

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books.

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!

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I love to get in the library and just spend days researching characters.

Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.

To start with, look at all the books.

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

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

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

I'm not a library.

I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through the research that I do, the reading.

I'm big on research. I love research, so I tend to do a lot of reading.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.

Read every book, blog, website, whatever, about what you want to be an expert in.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

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

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.