Ruskin Bond Quotes

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

It is extremely important to me to write for children.

I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.

We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.

My favorite book is 'Go Away Big Green Monster.' I wrote it for my granddaughter Adrian, who was in the third grade at the time.

I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.

If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.

I think picture books should stretch children. I think they should be full of wonderful, amazing words.

I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.

I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 11.

I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

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

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.

Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.

It seems like just yesterday my son was hiding under the table to avoid reading. Now, he's writing books longer than mine!

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.

I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.

I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.

Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than sitting down and, say, doing a reading drill when you're 3 or 4 years old.

Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look at 'proper' books, which means books without pictures.

Childhood reading is so important.

One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There's no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.

There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of one month and five years and for teenagers. I've been trying to find ways of approaching both groups.

The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with the most perfect ease, so much so, that I have no recollection whatever of learning the alphabet