Robert Loomis Quotes

Books have always been an important part of my life.

I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am happy, when I am nervous. My favourite British author is Jane Austen, and my favourite American one is John O'Hara.

One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!

I've always loved books.

I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.

I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

I love my books.

Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.

There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read.

I'd always been a big reader. I credit my mom for giving me my love of reading.

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.

My love of books - not just of their tactile pleasures but of their astonishing variety - was born in a book-filled house; my father is a scholar.

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

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

Reading has always been the great love of my life.

I've loved reading all my life.

My passion for books has changed my life.

Seeing that we were book enthusiasts, my mother began hauling my sister and me down to the Stanton Free Library on Tuesday afternoons, where I'd find two or three books to bring home.

I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read you can always read Shakespeare.

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better