Zilpha Keatley Snyder Quotes

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

I cannot remember not being able to read.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

I was one of those children they used to call '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.

I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

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

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

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

Childhood reading is so important.

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 was not a great reader. I don't know how to put it any other way.

Both of my parents had me reading at a really young age. Maybe it was a hereditary thing, but my mom always had my nose in a book. I've always been a bookworm.

I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books, good, bad, and indifferent.

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.

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

I've always been a voracious reader.

I'm always reading books.

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 have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.