Kevin Gates Quotes

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

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

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.

The one thing I wished for my children is that they'd be readers.

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.

My mother taught me how to write.

When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was not exactly true. I want other kids to read and write more all over the world, because it helps them to understand things better.

I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

Reading is important.

Libraries raised me.

Reading is a huge part of life.

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.

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.

Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.

If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

I'm a bookworm.

I lived in the library with my grandmother as a child. I still love the smell of books; the library card is still my friend.

I'm from a family of educators. I grew up with books in my house and in my hands and my parents in my life.

My goal is to be surrounded by books.

My grandfather and mother were school teachers, so there was always some discussion around books.