Janet Fitch Quotes

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

My father was an electrical engineer. He's presently 92 and still could be holding down a job. He had a very analytical way of looking at things, and I enjoyed that very much. I think that was a very large influence.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'

Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents is essentially to pass on the enthusiasm we had for the things we loved. That's how we'll get them to fall in love with reading in the first place and, hopefully, to stay in love with it.

I grew up in a bookish family, so I read very widely. I was omnivorous, really.

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

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 love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.

I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

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

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

A lot of people in government don't really read books at all.

No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.

Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom … For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth.

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

I grew up in this household where reading was the most noble thing you could do. When I was a teenager, we would have family dinners where we all sat there reading. It wasn't because we didn't like each other. We just liked reading. The person who made my reading list until my late teen years was my mom.

I've always been a voracious reader.

You need to cultivate love for books, it doesn't come to everyone naturally.

I like thinking and being able to answer questions that are tough to answer. You have to try to figure out how to get a good answer and look intelligent.