Adriana Trigiani Quotes

I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library. I was around nine years old when I began choosing my own books in earnest.

I would read all day if I could.

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.

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?'

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.

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

I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.

I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight.

I don't like the idea of a book being a test or being used for a test. The way - in my opinion - to make good readers is to let kids choose their own books and not test them.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

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

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

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 love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

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

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

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

I was a big reader.

When I was a kid I was a huge reader, I always had a book in my hand.

In some ways I grew up in the public library in Troy, Michigan.