John Niven Quotes

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

My mother was almost entirely responsible for my cultural education. She took me to the library once a week, and by the age of seven, I was reading 100 books a year.

I got my first library card, for Hendon Library in north London, when I was two years old.

If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.

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

I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.

If I'm desperate, I'll read anything. But even when I can be choosy, I still have no hard-and-fast rules. I have rules about what I won't read, rather than what I will. No science fiction, no romance, no chick lit. Although even these rules can be broken.

If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.

I seemed to have been born reading.

If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.

My mum was a children's librarian, so I spent a lot of time in the library. My reading life, because of my mum's work, was evenly split between American, Canadian, Australian and British authors.

I didn't even enter a bookshop until I was 14 because I couldn't afford books until I got my first Saturday job, but by the time I was six or seven, I spent practically every Saturday down my local library reading as much as I could and getting out as many books as I could.

Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.

The public library my parents took me to in Fort Worth had the children's section next to the SF/F section, so I was reading adult SF/F at a very young age.

I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom.

I cannot remember not being able to read.

Both of my parents had me reading at a really young age. Maybe it was a hereditary thing, but my mom always had my nose in a book. I've always been a bookworm.

I read all kinds of novels, as long as they're good.

Before my son was even born, he already had two shelves of books.

I don't read fiction.

As a reader, I read quite widely.

My parents are both intellectuals and readers; my mother would take me to the library every few days from before I was one year old.

A man is known by the books he reads.

I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but really as I go through life I realise it was my mother who gave me the most valuable instructions. I didn't understand or accept it at the time. She taught me to read and to pray - two things that have really stayed with me.

When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.