Paula Fox Quotes

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better

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.

My passion for books has changed my life.

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

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

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

I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it's good to add colour.

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

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

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being separate and distinct selves.

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.

I hope that when children read my stories that they evoke images for children. I four stories can help children use their own imaginations and lead them to act the stories out or to embark on related research, they will learn more and learn to love reading more.

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.

Books open windows to the world and have the power to transform lives.

I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano's class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me. Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am.

When I was younger, I was full of smart things to say about all my books.

Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of communication.