B. F. Skinner Quotes

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

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

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

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

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.

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.

When I was a kid I was a huge reader, I always had a book in my hand.

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

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

I would read all day if I could.

I've always been a voracious reader.

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 long for books; I am utterly greedy about them.

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.

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

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?'

I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.

Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing.

The idea there were kids out there who didn't love to read and write just as much as I did struck me. So I went around schools and tried to make other kids love to read and write.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.