Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.

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 grew up in a bookish family, so I read very widely. I was omnivorous, really.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I'm a voracious reader, I'm always studying.

I was never a bookworm at all.

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

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely.

I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.

I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

It's kind of sad, the way we've turned the entertainment of reading into a kind of psychic broccoli - something to feel guilty about if you don't force it on your face-making children while dutifully consuming a few token florets yourself.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district ... are the principle support of virtue, morality and civil liberty.

I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.

I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything.

I don't think I ever consciously separated 'school' books from any others; I just read anything that came across my path.

My parents tolerated me reading comics because they knew I was also reading 'proper' books, too.

Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.

Reading is No. 1 - I have to read, or I can't write.