Devotion Quote by Eudora Welty

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly can't learn…

— Frank Smith

That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.

— William Faulkner

If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read on their…

— David Elkind

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we…

— John Green

Writing is a bit like swimming. You learn writing by doing it and you learn swimming by doing it. Nobody learns how to swim…

— Robert Munsch

Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

— S. I. Hayakawa

Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is…

— Walter Gilbert

Reading is more important than writing.

— Roberto Bolano

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

— Julia Cameron

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

— Richard Ford