Mariah Carey Quotes

I'd always been a big reader. I credit my mom for giving me my love of reading.

When I was a kid I was a huge reader, I always had a book in my hand.

I was a good boy in high school, and I read for English class, and I vaguely remember reading, as a kid, 'Choose Your Own Adventure' stuff, but I didn't really read for pleasure.

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

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.

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

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

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

I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the writing on my breakfast Ovaltine over and over again because it was in front of me, and I couldn't help but read anything that was in front of me.

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

I would read all day if I could.

I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.

In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.

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.

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

Seeing that we were book enthusiasts, my mother began hauling my sister and me down to the Stanton Free Library on Tuesday afternoons, where I'd find two or three books to bring home.

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.

I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian's quiet smile as I'd bring back one stack and exchange it for another.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do.

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