Philip Pullman Quotes

The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.

It's kind of sad, the way we've turned the entertainment of reading into a kind of psychic broccoli - something to feel guilty about if you don't force it on your face-making children while dutifully consuming a few token florets yourself.

I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.

With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was a busy woman - but she found 10 minutes to come and sit on my bed with a book.

Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

I'd always been a big reader. I credit my mom for giving me my love of reading.

These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

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

I don't think I ever consciously separated 'school' books from any others; I just read anything that came across my path.

In my family, education was something you endured. My parents weren't educated past high school, and the only book in our house was a 'Reader's Digest' condensed book. Can you imagine?

I was a bookworm in school, and in those days it was easy to get books. Bigger cities had book shops.

My mother wanted me to be a reader. She was a reader. Even though she had an 11th-grade education, she was curious about all kinds of things - archeology, anthropology.

What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

I feel like I've been out of high school forever. So I just read to keep my mind going.

My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.

I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

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

I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, she encouraged me to use my imagination.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.