Educate thyself through reading

“Every child deserves to be a boat cast out in a sea of books.”

— K. Lamb

Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves…

— Ray Bradbury

When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time…

— Jon Scieszka

I don't have a whole bunch of literary connections. I don't write reviews or attend writer's conferences. I'm kind of shy and don't want…

— Susanna Kaysen

I learned to play by ear before I learned music theory. For me, that makes sense. After all, children learn to speak before they…

— Jools Holland

I try to write the kind of books I like to read.

— Isabel Allende

I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction - not to mention in other media…

— Kresley Cole

For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to…

— Charlaine Harris

I will take classes in Kannada and will learn to read and write it.

— Nikita Thukral

I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand yourself and…

— Chris Bohjalian

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to…

— Countee Cullen

I read and write for most of the day, but I do let myself be interrupted by real life. I enjoy going out with…

— William T. Vollmann

I do research, I read books. I write down everything that I intend to say and this may take several hours. Then when I…

— Bo Sanchez

My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and…

— Tracy Chevalier