Rachel Tucker Quotes

I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know. I'm an author now. Books and words are my world.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less overwhelmed again and again - if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine.

The only time I felt I was different was when one of my friends said, 'I hate reading' and I stared at her like, 'What kind of an alien creature are you?!' Because it was so incomprehensible to me that someone could dislike reading! That really started my desire to help other children love reading and writing.

You are at some point exposed to a wonderful story, and you really want to know what happens next, so you learn to read in order to find out.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.

You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery.

Schools and parents can team up to find books that kids will really get excited about - that will make them say, 'That was a great experience. Now I know why people get excited about reading.'

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.

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

I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher told me to read it. And I thought, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to read a whole book by myself!' It's not that I couldn't read, it's just that I didn't really like books very much. But the book that she lent me I really enjoyed.

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

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

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

Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it's not something that somebody who has never read a book before should be given as an example of why you'll really love to read, necessarily.

Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of the author's company.

We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie.

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 remember, for the first time, sitting down and consuming books in a matter of hours. This was such a new experience for me because reading, up until that point, had been such a struggle and source of stress. I think I just needed to find the right kind of stories with which I could identify.

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.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

I read all the time, and I'm often struck by something I'm reading.