Children Quote by Lisa Papademetriou

The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not seem strenuous…

— Stephen King

I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.

— Jason Isbell

Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and prepare my…

— Elie Wiesel

There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

— Kate DiCamillo

When I was hired by the University of Washington extension school to teach the one-year fiction writing course - 96 classroom hours - I…

— James Thayer

Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was all it…

— Caroline Lawrence

The best education for a writer, I think, is to read a lot - college can be a good place to do that.

— Rebecca Mead

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went…

— Khaled Hosseini

I write 3-4 days a week, 4-5 hours at a time (with lots of breaks). My goal is 2000 words when I sit down…

— Nicholas Sparks

To take an hour or two per day while the kids are in school to read really isn't that tough to do once you…

— Stephen Gostkowski

Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.

— Jennifer Egan