Celeste Ng Quotes

I never stopped reading.

I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.

I am not a big reader to begin with.

I don't read a lot of books.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

I read all the time, and I'm often struck by something I'm reading.

I'm actually not a big reader.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

I grew up as an avid reader. I would go to the library and check out 40 books a week. Some of them were smarty books; most of them were 'Sweet Valley High' and young teen romance.

I'm always reading books.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.

As a poet and a teacher, I read all the time. I know I read slowly. I like reading, but I don't read any more than I have to.

I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

I'm not that big of a reader, to be honest.

My mom was really of the belief that, as long as you were reading anything, it was okay. Just read.

The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read.

I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.