Sarah Dessen Quotes

I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

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 read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

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

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

I was an early reader, reading even before kindergarten, and since we did not have books in my home, my older brother, Alexander, was responsible for our trip every week to the public library to exchange books already read for new ones to be read.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.

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

I've always been a big reader.

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 read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

My mother insisted that her children read.

My mother was a huge, huge reader. I think I picked up very early how precious it was to write things in books and have people like my mother glued to the page.

I grew up as an avid reader. I would go to the library and check out 40 books a week. Some of them were smarty books; most of them were 'Sweet Valley High' and young teen romance.

I'm always reading books.

I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.

I was raised by my grandparents, who had a little general store. My grandmother, Marion Dunham Bowman, was a graduate of Albany Law School. Although she never did practice law, she kept the house filled with books. It's because of her that I was always reading.