Diana Gabaldon Quotes

We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

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.

Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than sitting down and, say, doing a reading drill when you're 3 or 4 years old.

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.

Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.

I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.

I hate the idea of any kid missing out on the magic of reading.

Childhood reading is so important.

My mother insisted that her children read.

We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.

Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile.

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 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.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

You can't write if you don't read.

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 always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.