Diamond Dallas Page Quotes

This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

I have to go make books. Sorry about that.

I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else's and the research and so forth, there's a sense of really have done something worthwhile.

I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.

I love to read. I'm still pen pals with my ninth-grade English teacher, Mr. Shanley. He tells me what books to read.

I've had great writing teachers and mentors and great success with my first book.

I never thought my ideas would actually get published.

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do.

I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.

To be publishing Stephen King, to be a friend to Stephen, when he is absolutely what got me into this business, is a really neat thing and something I don't take for granted.

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do.

May books spread the world over!

You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book.

I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting.

That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve.

I had always presumed that my first book would be published, but I never dreamt that I would write 15 bestsellers and have this wonderful life in America that I have entirely built for myself.

What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.

Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally got a book published. It was hard. I had no skills. I knew nothing about the business of getting published. So I had to keep working at it.

The policy of rewarding those who learn to read and write by giving them a chance to vote remain in operation in New England for many years as an influence tending to reduce illiteracy