Emily Giffin Quotes

You need books to read and readers for books.

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

It seems like just yesterday my son was hiding under the table to avoid reading. Now, he's writing books longer than mine!

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

It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

I used to like studying a lot.

I'm not well read.

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun.

My mother taught me to read.

I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family - poor, in fact.

I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.

Obviously I had gone all through high school and into college, and you don't do that not knowing how to read.

In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'

I'm always reading something.

I have always advised men to read.

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.

We must bring it to pass ... if we have the peace that all the youth now in England, born of free men who have the means that they can apply to it, may be devoted to learning ... until such time as they can read well what is written in England.