Francine Prose Quotes

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

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'm always reading books.

I never stopped reading.

I seemed to have been born reading.

As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.

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

I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.

The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.

I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

I'm not that big of a reader, to be honest.

I don't really read books. Wish I did.

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

My mother insisted that her children read.

I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.

I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything.

I'm actually not a big reader.

I'm not embarrassed about not having read any book.

I think the biggest thing, where my passionate-ness comes from, is that I love reading, and it is something that I really care about.

Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

This is what I believe is most important: getting good books into the hands of kids - books that will make them want to say, 'Wow, that was great. Give me another one to read.'