Aspect Quote by Chang-Rae Lee

I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing.

— Kathryn Lasky

We know that the ability to take on complex ideas, to handle the notion of a multiplicity of viewpoints, to deal in abstract thought…

— Michael Rosen

I started deliberately looking for characters, ideally outsiders and ideally Americans. So I just started reading widely, as I tell my students to do:…

— Erik Larson

Only when all children are in a book-loving environment will they achieve literacy, yes, but a lot more: a confidence in handling abstract ideas,…

— Michael Rosen

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

— Erica Jong

At a time when there's younger writers starting up and it's inevitable that you're becoming less fashionable, at a time when the industrial pressures…

— William Boyd

Younger writers and smaller writers need to live and get by. They need to be paid. It has to be fair.

— Nicola Roberts

I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's magic is…

— Diane Ackerman

I tell younger writers that indeed it is devastating to be rejected. You feel like the bottom dropped out of your world.

— Alex Haley

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

— Eric Ripert

There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

— Isaac D'Israeli

My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.

— Kevin Gates