Stephen McCauley Quotes

I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.

I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

I grew up in this household where reading was the most noble thing you could do. When I was a teenager, we would have family dinners where we all sat there reading. It wasn't because we didn't like each other. We just liked reading. The person who made my reading list until my late teen years was my mom.

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

I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.

The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.

I was an early reader, reading even before kindergarten, and since we did not have books in my home, my older brother, Alexander, was responsible for our trip every week to the public library to exchange books already read for new ones to be read.

I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.

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

My mother insisted that her children read.

My mother was a schoolteacher and very, very encouraging. She understood what it meant when I said I wanted to be a writer; both me and my brother wrote.

My dad dropped out of school in middle school, but he reads five or six books a week, and my mom reads about two.

I was so fortunate to be raised in a household filled with books and - as you might imagine to be the case in the Bush home - plenty of conversation.

My grandfather and mother were school teachers, so there was always some discussion around books.

I'm just encouraging students to read. It's something you can do daily. It's something you can do whether you're sitting at home reading a newspaper or ordering something online. It's endless.

I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.

My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

The Chinese have a habit of reading. Many families regard books as the most valuable family asset.

I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.

The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

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

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.