Paul G. Tremblay Quotes

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

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

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 loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

I think I was in 10th or 11th grade before I ever read a book for pleasure.

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

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

I never stopped reading.

Every generation likes to think that children don't read as much as they used to when they were young! You listen to some adults saying they were going around reading 'Ulysses' when they were seven or eight! I think children are voracious readers if you give them the right books and if you make those books accessible to them.

Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

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

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.

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

I read a lot as a kid and in high school.

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

I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less overwhelmed again and again - if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine.

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of 'The Wind in the Willows,' which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.

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.

My mom was really of the belief that, as long as you were reading anything, it was okay. Just read.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know. I'm an author now. Books and words are my world.

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.

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 grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.