Italo Calvino Quotes

No matter how busy I am, I find time to read, day and night.

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.

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

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.

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

These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

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 a reader as a child, believe it or not.

I'm a voracious reader, I'm always studying.

I was never a bookworm at all.

I was a bookworm in school, and in those days it was easy to get books. Bigger cities had book shops.

I'm always reading books.

I'm just encouraging students to read. It's something you can do daily. It's something you can do whether you're sitting at home reading a newspaper or ordering something online. It's endless.

Read much, but not many books.

The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

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

I never stopped reading.

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

Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.

When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was not exactly true. I want other kids to read and write more all over the world, because it helps them to understand things better.