Kate DiCamillo Quotes

This is what I believe is most important: getting good books into the hands of kids - books that will make them want to say, 'Wow, that was great. Give me another one to read.'

I'm always reading books.

Anything that encourages a boy to open a book, in a world of more violent and therefore more compelling video games, is something I'm going to pay for.

If the parents are too busy to read, it's a safe bet the children will feel the same way. Set aside time for family reading each night. It doesn't matter so much what the kids read, as long as you provide them space for reading and a sense that it is a valuable part of your daily routine.

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

If a child wants to read 'Twilight' over Middlemarch, they should be encouraged - the important thing is to get them reading in the first place.

I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.

I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous.

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

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.

I never stopped reading.

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 have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she was ten.

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

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?

I'd like for the young people, and older ones, too, who don't count themselves as readers, to know the joy of reading and what it does to enrich your life in so many ways.

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.

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 don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.