Judy Blume Quotes

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.

Every generation likes to think that children don't read as much as they used to when they were young! You listen to some adults saying they were going around reading 'Ulysses' when they were seven or eight! I think children are voracious readers if you give them the right books and if you make those books accessible to them.

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

I read prodigiously as a child, and I still do.

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.

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 don't read a lot of books.

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

Like measles, the reading bug is best caught when you are young.

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

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

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

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

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

If a child wants to read 'Twilight' over Middlemarch, they should be encouraged - the important thing is to get them reading in the first place.

I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.

As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a 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 grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.

I'm actually not a big reader.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

As a historically voracious reader - pre-baby, I averaged a book every week or two, and when I was a kid, I'd routinely read a book a day - I never understood how some people could not read. When I heard people say they didn't have time to read, in my head, I simultaneously pitied and ridiculed them: there was always time to read.