Michael Foreman Quotes

I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian's quiet smile as I'd bring back one stack and exchange it for another.

I grew up in a house with very few books.

As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.

I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.

I have very vivid memories of my mother reading to us as kids.

When I was a small child, I partially learned to read with comics, in particular with 'Scamp,' about the Lady and the Tramp's male child. That was the prime comic that made me fall in love with comics as a kid.

When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read.

I have three kids, so children's literature is a big part of my life.

My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.

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

I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.

I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical worlds through books and stories.

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.

I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do.

My mother taught me to read.

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.

I'd go to the library so I could sit in a big, quiet room and listen to pages being turned. There was a boring librarian who everyone in fifth grade hated. But I loved her because when she would read us stories in her soft voice, she'd turn my head into a snow globe.

Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.

I remember, when I was at school, we would have a 10-minute storytelling session where we'd all sit on the floor cross-legged, and the teacher would read. It became something we all really looked forward to. That was part of the reason I grew to love stories.

I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child.

One of the most important things in my childhood were the new books that came in. I feel sorry for kids today who have so many other options like television that they may not value books as much as they could enjoy them.

If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

Reading is how I became an actor because I didn't grow up in a house where there was an awareness of film or theater. I also grew up in a house full of teachers, so reading was big in our world.