Michael Morpurgo Quotes

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

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 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.

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

I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn't until I was 13 and discovered the 'Lord of the Rings' that I learned to love reading.

Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.

I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.

The only time I felt I was different was when one of my friends said, 'I hate reading' and I stared at her like, 'What kind of an alien creature are you?!' Because it was so incomprehensible to me that someone could dislike reading! That really started my desire to help other children love reading and writing.

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

We've always read to the kids, every night both kids get books. That's really important, and they love books. Our daughter is obsessed with reading and books, so it's really sweet. She has her own little personal library.

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.

I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.

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.'

When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.

I'm an appreciator. I love all kinds of books, and I want others to love them, too.

I want kids to think that reading can be just as much fun and more so than TV or video games or whatever else they do. I think any other kind of message or morals that I might teach is secondary to first just enjoying a book.

I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again.

I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.

Inspiring passion in children for books, and the world of imagination and creativity fuelled by them, is a fundamental reason for why the Children's Laureate post exists.

Librarians and romance writers accomplish one mission better than anyone, including English teachers: we create readers for life - and what could be more fulfilling than that?

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

I don't think anything's more rewarding than hearing that you've helped someone gain a love of reading.

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.