Kate DiCamillo Quotes

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.

I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy

Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them and to let their kids see them reading books for their own pleasure.

What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

This is what I believe is most important: getting good books into the hands of kids - books that will make them want to say, 'Wow, that was great. Give me another one to read.'

Reading was and still is my real joy.

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun.

With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was a busy woman - but she found 10 minutes to come and sit on my bed with a book.

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

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.

I'd like for the young people, and older ones, too, who don't count themselves as readers, to know the joy of reading and what it does to enrich your life in so many ways.

Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.

The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment.

I hate the idea of any kid missing out on the magic of reading.

I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years to listen to him and pick up a book!

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

My mother insisted that her children read.

I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading one book leads to another book.

If you can get every kid to have found a book that he or she loves, then you've done a great job.