Nicholas Sparks Quotes

What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow. I cannot conscientiously recommend it for any useful purposes whatever. All I can suggest is that when you get tired of reading "the best hundred books," you may take this for half an hour. It will be a change.

I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood.

Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.

The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true? "It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils," came a low growl from somewhere on the table, "without undergoing a pre-frontal lobotomy."

Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.

He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.

I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

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

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.

Reading is how I became an actor because I didn't grow up in a house where there was an awareness of film or theater. I also grew up in a house full of teachers, so reading was big in our world.

When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read.

I have three kids, so children's literature is a big part of my life.

Satire makes people learn something more than being lectured.

I frequently meet ex-pupils who seem to think I didn't totally ruin their educations, so that's something.

I was a bad kid. I was a really naughty kid. I couldn't read or write. And that was me punishment - going to acting school.

May books and nature be their early joy!