Rumer Godden Quotes

I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family - poor, in fact.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

The important thing is that you 'read!'

I think literacy is everything.

The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.

It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

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

I'm not well read.

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.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

My mother taught me to read.

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

There's definitely a value in being literate.

In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'

So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.

I'm always reading something.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

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

Reading equals hope times change.

I didn't read a book until I was 31 years old when I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Books terrified me. They made me nervous. Now I know you can travel to the bottom of the ocean or to outer space or anywhere in between without leaving your armchair, and I'm so, so sorry I couldn't read when I was younger.