Nat Turner Quotes

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

When I was thirteen, I was in a supermarket with my mother, and for no reason at all, I picked up a science-fiction book at the checkout stand and started reading it. I couldn't believe I was doing that, actually reading a book. And, man, it opened up a whole new thing. Reading became the sparkplug of my imagination.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.

Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me makes me want to figure things out.

I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

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.

The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

Victorville gave me opportunity to go inside and explore my imagination a bit.

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.

I can't imagine not being in a phase where I'm trying to understand something or create something. That's the essence of life.