Quotes About Reading

In the morning, I reach for the sports page.

When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.

You may have tangible wealth untold: Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be I had a Mother who read to me.

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.

Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.

My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.

I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.

My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.

My mother insisted that her children read.

You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?'

My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

I question whether we can afford to teach mother macramé when Johnny still can't read.

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.

My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics.

Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!

My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working. So I got my stories from films and books. I read a lot, and I love to read to this day.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.