Julie Andrews Quotes

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

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it's good to add colour.

Books always help.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

You can't write if you don't read.

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

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

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.

Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.

My daughter has a vivid imagination, and so does my son.

One of my favorite things to do with my children is to read to them.

I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

Reading is No. 1 - I have to read, or I can't write.

Learned to read, and for a while as a kid, you think books are just leaves on trees. Then suddenly, you think a human being is making that, and maybe you could do that.

I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.

The best memories on tour are always of kids who tell me they are going to run back to their classrooms and start writing!

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better

Some people may contend that there is no image more charming that a child holding a puppy or kitten. But for me that's a distant second. When I see a child clutching a book... to his or her tiny bosom, I'm moved. Children can possess a book in a way they can never possess a video game, a TV show, or a Darth Vader doll. A book comes alive when they read it. They give it life themselves by understanding it.