Kate DiCamillo Quotes

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

I don't think anything's more rewarding than hearing that you've helped someone gain a love of reading.

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.

Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.

I never stopped reading.

I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.

I seemed to have been born reading.

I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.

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've always been a voracious reader.

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

I think the biggest thing, where my passionate-ness comes from, is that I love reading, and it is something that I really care about.

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 wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

I was a very avid reader when I was a child, and I also was a good listener.

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

I have never met an author who did not read voraciously as a child.

Since I could read, I always had my nose in a book.

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

I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

I'm not that big of a reader, to be honest.