Diana Gabaldon Quotes

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

I was a reader as a child, believe it or not.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

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. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'

Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.

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

And Michael likes to read a lot. People don't realize that about him but he reads a number of books per week and he's fascinated just about every subject.

I spend 12 hours a day reading on most days of the year.

I grew up in a bookish family, so I read very widely. I was omnivorous, really.

My mom was really of the belief that, as long as you were reading anything, it was okay. Just read.

I read a whole lot as a child, and, of course, I still read children's books.

It's kind of sad, the way we've turned the entertainment of reading into a kind of psychic broccoli - something to feel guilty about if you don't force it on your face-making children while dutifully consuming a few token florets yourself.

I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything.

My parents tolerated me reading comics because they knew I was also reading 'proper' books, too.

I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.

I'm a voracious reader. I want information, all kinds - Internet, books, magazines.

I was a good boy in high school, and I read for English class, and I vaguely remember reading, as a kid, 'Choose Your Own Adventure' stuff, but I didn't really read for pleasure.

My mother wanted me to be a reader. She was a reader. Even though she had an 11th-grade education, she was curious about all kinds of things - archeology, anthropology.

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.

I remember that already as a child I was often intensely interested in things, obsessed by ideas and projects in many areas, and in these topics I learned much on my own, reading books.

Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.