Quotes About Reading

It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on different levels. I do want to entertain and bring some joy to the reading experience. If it holds a little kernel of knowledge that readers choose to explore, well, that's great.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers.

My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.

I loved stories as a kid, both being read to me and enjoying on my own. All these stories inspired my imagination, and that's what I have always aimed at doing for my readers: ignite their imaginations.

All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.

I think it's so important for young readers to find a book or series that ignites their passion for reading, especially boys, whose interest in reading wanes as they grow older.

Readers who claim a preference for short-form over long often tell me it's because they don't have time to commit to a book-length chunk of writing.

As a children's author, you get to advocate for reading and writing in general, in a way an adult author might not be able to. It's a really interesting dance we do to get literature into the hands of young people and to help them to become literate and become readers; we want them to grow up reading and continue to do so when they're adults.

There are writers, and there are readers who want something more. They want to get at the grist of life.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

I read a lot. I enjoy reading a lot.

Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am.

I just have never got into reading.

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

A good interviewer is able to ferret out what the applicant is really passionate about. Ask them what they do for fun, what they're reading, try and find out if they have a life outside of work.