Stormzy Quotes

Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still so many more books to read. I'm a work in progress.

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

The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

'Moby-Dick' really threw me. I read it when I was 14 and my best friends were books. It changed the way I looked at the world.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Childhood reading is so important.

Whilst a man may escape from the burden of an unlucky name, or from the contempt attaching to a city of no repute, by changing the one or quitting the other, he can never remedy the neglect of early education. The foundation, therefore, of this last must be laid in the first years of life, the disposition molded whilst it is susceptible and the mind trained whilst it is retentive.

My parents tolerated me reading comics because they knew I was also reading 'proper' books, too.

I hate reading. But I'm trying to force myself because studies have shown that it's literally the only way to matter-of-factly boost your IQ.

What we read, how we read, and why we read change how we think.

By the time I was in my teens, I was reading science fiction. I had this maternal uncle who had cartons of books. It's important to read because you have to fill your head with words.

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.

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

Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.

Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer.

People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home.

It's kind of sad, the way we've turned the entertainment of reading into a kind of psychic broccoli - something to feel guilty about if you don't force it on your face-making children while dutifully consuming a few token florets yourself.

I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.

I don't think I ever consciously separated 'school' books from any others; I just read anything that came across my path.