Cree Summer Quotes

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library.

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

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.

I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.

Like measles, the reading bug is best caught when you are young.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

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

I had English grammar book and started to teach myself. I read 'Catcher in Rye,' in Russian. I was amazed at freedom in 'Catcher in Rye!' Freedom to have those perceptions of life!

I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child.

When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.

I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books, good, bad, and indifferent.

My mother taught me to read in part by reading me Walt Disney comics, and I never stopped.

I read prodigiously as a child, and I still do.

To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that when I drive around in my car, I'll listen to college lectures on philosophy and literature and world history, things like that, to kind of catch up on the college experience I missed.

I am glad to say that I used to read a lot right from a young age.

Everyone has a story that they read when they were younger that influenced them.

I've been reading since I could read, which was about four or five years old.

I do think, where would kids be if it weren't for you and for the good pediatricians, and for the good parents? I passionately believe in sitting a child on your lap and tracing the lines of the book with your finger, and they can read before they know they can, if you bother enough. I did it with my kids, and they're doing it with their kids now.

I was kind of reading you know Judy Blume and stuff like that. But yeah, but I've since educated myself.

I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and the Kangaroo'. Then, because my grandfather, Senator Gore, was blind, I was required early on to read grown-up books to him, mostly constitutional law and, of course, the Congressional Record. The later continence of my style is a miracle, considering those years of piping the additional remarks of Mr. Borah of Idaho.