Ray Bradbury Quotes

I grew up in this household where reading was the most noble thing you could do. When I was a teenager, we would have family dinners where we all sat there reading. It wasn't because we didn't like each other. We just liked reading. The person who made my reading list until my late teen years was my mom.

I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.

You need to cultivate love for books, it doesn't come to everyone naturally.

I read an hour almost every night. It's part of falling asleep.

I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.

I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.

I cannot go to sleep without reading.

I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine.

When I was a kid, I went through the whole process of reading great literature and trying to be very widely read.

All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers.

Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents is essentially to pass on the enthusiasm we had for the things we loved. That's how we'll get them to fall in love with reading in the first place and, hopefully, to stay in love with it.

If the parents are too busy to read, it's a safe bet the children will feel the same way. Set aside time for family reading each night. It doesn't matter so much what the kids read, as long as you provide them space for reading and a sense that it is a valuable part of your daily routine.

When a new book is published, read an old one.

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

Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.

Books guided my life from high school, and the greatest, most interesting, most provocative, funniest, smartest people who ever lived in the last 200 or 300 years wrote those books. I would fall in love with Victor Hugo and read not just 'Les Miserables,' but 'Bug-Jargal' and 'The Toilers of the Sea' and so forth.

Read more. Read every time you go to bed; read in the day - because at least, reading a book, you can't be distracted by anything else.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

So few people read poetry. That's sad, isn't it?

I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader.

My whole background was in voracious book-reading.