Geraldine Brooks Quotes

I grew up in a house with very few books.

I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood.

Reading taught me how to write.

Words are so lovable. How could you not love words?

I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.

If I don't have words, it's a sign I'm not reading enough.

My mother taught me to read.

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

Reading has always been the great love of my life.

I've loved reading all my life.

It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.

I'm from a family of educators. I grew up with books in my house and in my hands and my parents in my life.

Reading has been a part of my life ever since I was born.

I have always, always loved words.

It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of communication.

Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

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

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.

It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

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

May books spread the world over!

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.

Reading is a huge part of life.