Rebecca Stead Quotes

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 was a reader as a child, believe it or not.

I was a good boy in high school, and I read for English class, and I vaguely remember reading, as a kid, 'Choose Your Own Adventure' stuff, but I didn't really read for pleasure.

I love reading, I'm such a bookworm.

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

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

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

Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least one book for my birthday. I have a few of them yet. Early on, I had my own collection of books. I loved to read. Still do.

I've always been a big reader.

I'm always reading books.

Seeing that we were book enthusiasts, my mother began hauling my sister and me down to the Stanton Free Library on Tuesday afternoons, where I'd find two or three books to bring home.

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.

I love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.

I never stopped reading.

With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was a busy woman - but she found 10 minutes to come and sit on my bed with a book.

Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.

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.

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.

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

When I was a kid, I loved having a book in my hand. I still do. I wasn't a fast reader, but I was a steady reader. I read all of The Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and Cherry Ames books.

I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less overwhelmed again and again - if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine.

I would read all day if I could.

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

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.

My mom was really of the belief that, as long as you were reading anything, it was okay. Just read.