Ray Bradbury Quotes

Thanks to the comic book publishers. Batman and Captain Marvel were responsible for my learning to read at least a year before I showed up at school. They got me interested in writing. Started my first novel at about eight. The title: 'The Canals of Mars.'

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

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

When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read.

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.

We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I didn't have books at home so I did all my reading at school. I love books and I believe that helping kids to read gives them a great start in life.

Some people may contend that there is no image more charming that a child holding a puppy or kitten. But for me that's a distant second. When I see a child clutching a book... to his or her tiny bosom, I'm moved. Children can possess a book in a way they can never possess a video game, a TV show, or a Darth Vader doll. A book comes alive when they read it. They give it life themselves by understanding it.

Once upon a time, there was a boy who learned to read at the age of 5. This changed his life. Owing to the adventure tales he read, he discovered a way to escape from the poor house, the poor country, and the poor reality in which he lived.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

It's lovely to write for the youngsters because through your story, you can teach them the lessons of life.

I'm actually not that big a fan of reading.

Short of the dishonest, the illegal, and the cruel, there's only one thing my son could do that would really disappoint me: not liking reading.

Reading is essential to human life. When the last reader dies, humanity will be at an end.

We will have a total chaos without books, literature, and library.

Reading has been a part of my life ever since I was born.

Just as computer science is missing from our school system, so is science fiction.

Every time a bookseller hands a child a book, they are doing something that is the heart and soul of the American dream and the American ideal. It's a very sacred tradition.

Seeing that we were book enthusiasts, my mother began hauling my sister and me down to the Stanton Free Library on Tuesday afternoons, where I'd find two or three books to bring home.

I love reading, I'm such a bookworm.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

I think literacy is everything.

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

President Bush said that our kids must be taught how to read. He said if his aides never learned to read, they'd never be able to tell him what's in the newspapers every day.

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.