Paul Gilbert Quotes

Librarians and romance writers accomplish one mission better than anyone, including English teachers: we create readers for life - and what could be more fulfilling than that?

The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.

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

I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.

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.

There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.

The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

I came from a home where everybody had a book.

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

I seemed to have been born reading.

What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

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.

Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.

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.

Of course I always like going to bookstores, but at stores, you're mostly meeting kids who are already into reading.

Pleasure reading has long been an American ideal - generations of schoolchildren have headed home for the summer toting recreational reading lists. But try to pitch it to a group of non-readers, and they quickly become suspicious.

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

I'm a realist about who really reads books and who acts like they read books.

I've always been a voracious reader.

It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on reading and writing again. He had so many paperbacks, I didn't have to buy a book for four and a half years.

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

Just like anyone else, I watch a lot of reality TV yet will turn my nose up at some of it, e.g., ABC's 'Splash,' because I think I'm above it.

My father was very fond of reading. It was something we did at our home. I don't think it fits the way people think Bollywood works, but that's who we are.