Mike Greenberg Quotes

I knew I loved writing, and I was raised by people who love books.

What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.

I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books.

I've loved reading all my life.

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.

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

I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table.

My love of reading and the English language is something given to me by my parents, and I've passed it on to my children.

In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.

Reading has always been the great love of my life.

All my life, books have felt alive; some more so than people, or rather, some people. Alive - this has to do with me, I know, and not the books - in a way that some people aren't. Alive as teachers, alive as minds, alive as imaginative triggers.

Without literature my life would be miserable.

I did not discover literature of any kind until I was about eleven, or ten.

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

We all know that books burn—yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die but books never die.

It's funny: I don't know if she babysat, but I spent time with Judy Blume when I was little.