Quotes About Reading

I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader.

I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can.

When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was not exactly true. I want other kids to read and write more all over the world, because it helps them to understand things better.

I eventually realised you don't have to understand every single word, and that reading in your head doesn't have to be perfect. Once I took that pressure off, it gave me confidence.

I'm a realist about who really reads books and who acts like they read books.

I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.

Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing.

I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.

I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too.

I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.

I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good at children's books.

If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works.

In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn't feel I belonged there.

When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.

I'd read at a much higher-than-average grade level since, well, grade school.

I think I was in 10th or 11th grade before I ever read a book for pleasure.

I was going through a divorce, and I had a lot of reading I was doing, and I developed what was probably a serious anxiety problem - because I was about as poor as you can get, in graduate school, and trying to make my work and keep my head above water.

I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.

Just as my father read to us as children, I used to read to my own children and now read to my grandchildren.

In my free time, I read a lot, watch shows, listen to music, cook, write short stories and spend time with my grandchildren.

My grandfather read the 'John Carter of Mars' books to me when I was young.

One day at my grandmother's house, I discovered 'The Secret Garden' and read it. This was the first book I found entirely for myself, and I cherished it.

I was told bedtime stories by my father or my grandmother. Books, I mostly read on my own in bed.

My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.